A friend bought me this trash as I like Sterling Hayden. I have avoided it all my life, but it came all the way from Spain and quite simply I endured watching it. Seeing trees chopped down and polluted smoke from trains is not my idea of enjoyable for reasons too obvious to go into, but then this is an ' historical ' film. Men bash each other around and Vera Ralston sings songs that made me wish that no one had thought of inflicting them on the public. Hayden goes through the motions, and Hoagy Carmichael who is usually so good and witty looked bored to tears. Maybe Vera Ralston does her best, but I do not want to be too unkind about her acting. Needless to say there is no chemistry between her and Hayden. Why my friend paid for this unbelievably bad film is a mystery, but then this was not the Sterling Hayden of ' The Asphalt Jungle ' or ' Johnny Guitar '. Most of all I felt sorry for the trees. I have to give it a 1 but really I wish there were more I could give it below zero.