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The critics have a tendency to over-rate anything by Cohen Bros. If you watch the original you will note that a lot of the dialog is identical (perhaps the scriptwriters for respective version lifted it from the source novel?). Even how the actors are positioned and what they do are the same - note Ned Pepper while yelling at Rooster from the camp. The camera set ups around the final shoot out is almost identical scene by scene. Also the landscapes (autumal vs. grayish winter) looked more stunning in the original. The only actor who manages to improve on the original is Matt Damon. Some of the plot additions and characters are irrelevant to the plot (e.g. a meeting with a "dentist" in the forest. The original actually shows us what led up to Matties trek for her fathers murderer - this one does not. If you want to remake something that was good in the first place and put your own mark on it one should do better than this.

The episode "The Voice In The Night" must be one of the scariest episodes ever made for TV. Everyone about my age, who saw the rerun in the early 70's seem to remember it, but hardly anyone know what it was. Perhaps due to the fact that it has always been considered to be part of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" in Sweden - perhaps Swedish TV had got the episode "by mistake". Anyhow, the episode in question is about a honeymoon couple (James Donald and Barbara Rush) who suffers a shipwreck and end up in a everlasting fog, from which there seem to be no escape. Trouble starts when everything gets infected by a mysterious fungus.... It is all told in flashback to a couple of seamen (during a foggy night) who are told not to turn their lanterns in the direction of the man who is telling the story. If it ever was rerun again - or made available on DVD.