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I don't remember having already watched this film before, though it is in my collection. I understand why, when I see it now, there is really nothing special, despite its obvious qualities. The story is not that riveting, tense or hard boiled. Just a good time waster from a director who became famous for some adventure and horror films in the sixties and fifties. This one, I doubt anyone rememebers it in John Gilling's filmography and career. It reminds us that he was also a crime film provider, but mostly in the fifties, not the sixties. I am glad, however, to have seen it again. It remains a good film.
Once more, I had to endure a Sam Katzman's production, this time a western, supposed to tell the story of Bat Masterson, a conquest of the West figure, authentic character, who would have deserved better than being evoked by this awful Sam Katzman producer. William Castle, the future horror gimmick films genius, could not do anything against this plague named Katzman who condemned him to mediocrity in the studio; such a talented, gifted director. It is a good time waster though, but you have to keep out of your head the idea that such a plot would have been ten times better, produced by an Harry Joe Brown or Howard Christie. Well, we have to deal with it, we have no choice.
With a producer such as Sam Katzman, you could not expect a masterpiece, but technicians and actors did their best to gives us something acceptable, bearable. Lousy and cheap production design can't enhance the quality of this period adventure flick, about which it is not necessary to find any historical accuracy. What could you expect more with such a producer? Sam Katzman was the most inspired in crime dramas, gangster films, certainly not this kind of sword and sandal, that even a small kid would despise. The Universal or Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios gave us ten millions times better stuff. Shame on Katzman, to spoil such historical, period action yarns.