Western parody, tinged with me…
Wednesday January 27th 2010, 10:09 am
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Western send-up, tinged with glumness for the sake of the good unused days, in which prim Fonda returns diggings from school to gain her rancher father under the control of threat of eviction or worse, and hires a once-illustrious gunfighter (Marvin) - who proves to be a drunken derelict - as protection against the dreaded hired gunman with the tin nose (also Marvin). The shoot presents such a mixture of comedy styles that the more lumpen slapstick routines, and the warm lilting interludes from Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye, may lull you into overlooking some brilliant throwaways. Marvin is day by day brilliant, but the film is patchy.
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