Decent but minor Mexico-set-Western about an enjoyable friendship-confrontation between Arthur Kennedy and Eugene Iglesias , while Betta St John turns out to be the third in discord . Nice but unexceptional Western adapted from a story written by Julian Zimet and loosely based on a short tale by Russian writer Maxim Gorky .This is the story of three people in love, a love that at the beginning doesn't affect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolving , but each person's relationship with the other two is complicated as it is not only based on their direct feelings for the person in question. It is In Mexico, at the dawn of the automobile and modern times , there a resourceful , jolly outlaw with anarchistic philosophy called Santiago (Arthur Kennedy) robs train freight cars , but things go wrong when he has just lost his intimate colleague. Stars Arthur Kennedy as the stranger who steps into the middle of an isolated farm and ends up befriending one young husband named Manuel (Eugene Iglesias) and his beautiful wife Maria (Betta St John) . The latter is a haplesss and hopeless woman who is mistreated by her hubby , while the drifter gets turned around by the simple farmer who subsequently becomes an ambitious person . Vera Cruz to Matamoros they stalked his desperate trail ! So close together ... only a bullet can separate them !
A good little drama that takes place in Mexico at the dawn of the automobile including thrills , loves stories , emotion , crossfire and better than the title suggests . An interesting a strange movie that allegedly inspired Jules at Jim by Francois Truffaut , in fact the relation among Truffaut's roles : Oskar Werner , Jeanne Moreau , Henri Serre bears a certain resemblance to Arthur Kennedy , Betta St. John and Eugene Iglesias. Furthermore , displaying colorful cinematography by Frederick Gately , as well as evocative musical score by Herschel Burke Gilbert. Film relies heavily on the peculiar relationship among three protagonists Arthur Kennedy , Betta St. John , Eugene Iglesias . But , really here stands out Arthur Kennedy , in fact , this is one of Kennedy's best characters from his long career , usually as a great secondary actor . There he plays an adventurous hustler having a taste of the good life who burglarizes trains and along the way falls in love with a poor farmer's wife. While Betta St. John is pretty well as the gorgeous but unfortunate spouse of the hardworking and eventually reedemed farmer finely performed by Eugene Iglesias .
Being nicely shot on location in Mexico and Mack Sennett Studios , Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California . The picture was professionally directed by Edgar G. Ulmer . He was a prolific filmmaker who made all kinds of genres , directing acceptable films and here providing an intense pace though it results to be some dated. Adequate and professionally shot , being filmed in short time . Edgar was born on September 17, 1904 in Olmütz, Moravia, Czech Republic as Edgar George Ulmer. He was a notorious and prolific director and writer. At his beginnings he was blackballed from Hollywood work after he had an affair with Shirley Castle -he eventually married her and she became known as Shirley Ulmer-, who at the time was the wife of B-picture producer Max Alexander, a nephew of powerful Universal Pictures president Carl Laemmle. That's why Ulmer spent the bulk of his remaining career languishing at "Poverty Row" studios. He signed a long-term contract there in 1943 after directing the "big-budget" Jive Junction (1943), being especiallly known for Satanás (1934), Bluebeard (1944) , Detour (1945) , The Strange Woman (1946), People on Sunday (1930) , Aníbal (1959) , The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) , Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) , among others. Rating : 6.5/10. Well worth seeing.
A good little drama that takes place in Mexico at the dawn of the automobile including thrills , loves stories , emotion , crossfire and better than the title suggests . An interesting a strange movie that allegedly inspired Jules at Jim by Francois Truffaut , in fact the relation among Truffaut's roles : Oskar Werner , Jeanne Moreau , Henri Serre bears a certain resemblance to Arthur Kennedy , Betta St. John and Eugene Iglesias. Furthermore , displaying colorful cinematography by Frederick Gately , as well as evocative musical score by Herschel Burke Gilbert. Film relies heavily on the peculiar relationship among three protagonists Arthur Kennedy , Betta St. John , Eugene Iglesias . But , really here stands out Arthur Kennedy , in fact , this is one of Kennedy's best characters from his long career , usually as a great secondary actor . There he plays an adventurous hustler having a taste of the good life who burglarizes trains and along the way falls in love with a poor farmer's wife. While Betta St. John is pretty well as the gorgeous but unfortunate spouse of the hardworking and eventually reedemed farmer finely performed by Eugene Iglesias .
Being nicely shot on location in Mexico and Mack Sennett Studios , Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California . The picture was professionally directed by Edgar G. Ulmer . He was a prolific filmmaker who made all kinds of genres , directing acceptable films and here providing an intense pace though it results to be some dated. Adequate and professionally shot , being filmed in short time . Edgar was born on September 17, 1904 in Olmütz, Moravia, Czech Republic as Edgar George Ulmer. He was a notorious and prolific director and writer. At his beginnings he was blackballed from Hollywood work after he had an affair with Shirley Castle -he eventually married her and she became known as Shirley Ulmer-, who at the time was the wife of B-picture producer Max Alexander, a nephew of powerful Universal Pictures president Carl Laemmle. That's why Ulmer spent the bulk of his remaining career languishing at "Poverty Row" studios. He signed a long-term contract there in 1943 after directing the "big-budget" Jive Junction (1943), being especiallly known for Satanás (1934), Bluebeard (1944) , Detour (1945) , The Strange Woman (1946), People on Sunday (1930) , Aníbal (1959) , The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) , Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) , among others. Rating : 6.5/10. Well worth seeing.