User Reviews

I found the acting by the occupants of the stage quite good as they are seasoned actors like Anderson, Hagen and Westerfield. Stanwyck gets to act emotional and hysterical for her daughter's plight as she tries to convince killers to leave them alone. Watching each cast member drop out of the picture was foreboding but how unbelievable to think two women, one oblivious to her situation, could survive two armed men in the mountainous terrain who are trying to kill them.

After being abandoned by the group Victoria pulls Audra along to climb big boulders and rough passages to escape these murderers. They seem to be right behind them but Audra and Victoria can become invisible. Victoria can dislodge a boulder and as it careens towards a pile of rocks that explode these dudes survive. She pulls a match from somewhere to fire up a tumbleweed then kicks it at her attackers when days earlier she had no matches. She manages to get the rifle after one falls to his death. Soon Audra, dressed in a bright blue outfit, sees horror ready to kill them and snaps out of her catatonic state to allow Victoria her final act of valor. How they survived is as baffling to the viewer as it is to Anderson who sees them in Stockton and assures Victoria his guilt for abandoning them will endure.

Wonder why Heath and Nick weren't looking for them and why didn't Anderson try to offer some info on the fate-less trip. Paul Petersen was adept at showing his courage compared to the older men especially Westerfield whom we can only hope died in the desert.