Howard Hawkes movie, script co-written by Leigh Brackett. Stars the Duke as a Texas sherriff trying to keep a murderer in jail despite the efforts of the man's evil rancher brother to spring him. Dean Martin, Walter Brennan and fifties teen idol Ricky Nelson assist him. Angie Dickinson as the Duke's love interest.
John Wayne and Walter Brennan are John Wayne and Walter Brennan: their product rarely varies. Dean Martin is playing a drunk - what a stretch for him! Ricky Nelson is inadequate, but it hardly matters. Climax is nice little example of Chekhov's adage about guns on mantlepieces.
All in all, a pleasant, moderately entertaining Western, though with way too many longuers.
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