Posse from Hell
Posted: July 20th, 2012, 5:01 pm
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The title of this one put me off from watching it for quite a while but yesterday I finally sat down with it and was pleased with the movie. Although it is made up of a large group of people (townsfolk, posse, bad guys, etc), the real co-stars are Audie Murphy and John Saxon. Still relatively new as a leading name, Saxon seems to exhibit a kind of hero worship while working with Murphy - not that I blame him a bit. If you're going to make a hero out of someone, it may as well be a real hero. Anyway, this posse is after a terribly vicious gang of escapees from prison and it takes about 3/4 of the movie to either kill or capture each of them. Actually there are only 4 of the gang, but they shoot first and ask questions later. In one scene, they tell a man to stand at the door and yell out instructions and as he's doing that, the gang leader just shoots him in the back with not even a blink of an eye, so although there are only 4 of them, their actions make it seem like there are ten or more. As the movie progresses along with the shooting, heavy riding, and fist fights, a bit of psychology is enlisted to prove certain beliefs making it a combo western/drama.
It's quite a good movie which I think will please anyone who sits down with it.
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The title of this one put me off from watching it for quite a while but yesterday I finally sat down with it and was pleased with the movie. Although it is made up of a large group of people (townsfolk, posse, bad guys, etc), the real co-stars are Audie Murphy and John Saxon. Still relatively new as a leading name, Saxon seems to exhibit a kind of hero worship while working with Murphy - not that I blame him a bit. If you're going to make a hero out of someone, it may as well be a real hero. Anyway, this posse is after a terribly vicious gang of escapees from prison and it takes about 3/4 of the movie to either kill or capture each of them. Actually there are only 4 of the gang, but they shoot first and ask questions later. In one scene, they tell a man to stand at the door and yell out instructions and as he's doing that, the gang leader just shoots him in the back with not even a blink of an eye, so although there are only 4 of them, their actions make it seem like there are ten or more. As the movie progresses along with the shooting, heavy riding, and fist fights, a bit of psychology is enlisted to prove certain beliefs making it a combo western/drama.
It's quite a good movie which I think will please anyone who sits down with it.
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