Don't get me wrong. I love Westerns! This one offers some real pluses: The cast is great -- Randolf Scott (a Western legion), Pernell Roberts (the heart-throb from Bonanza), Karen Steele (a smokin' hot babe in any film), and James Coburn (star of "The Magnificent Seven" and the "Flint" films).
The story is fantastic. A group of macho guys agree to transport a gorgeous women across the dessert to the nearest town -- along with a captured prisoner (James Best) that all the men want to retain possession of for their own personal reasons.
Unfortunately, the dialog in this low-budget opus is so bad that the audience has a hard time taking the story seriously. While watching it I felt sorry for the actors. Their dialog was embarrassingly bad.
Pernell, for example, is forced to utter lines which bear little resemblance to the intelligent scripts he was graced with in "Bonanza".
That said, I must say that "Ride Lonesome" is not great Western film. However, you should watch it and judge for yourself.
Bud the bartender of this here saloon. (Howdy!)
The story is fantastic. A group of macho guys agree to transport a gorgeous women across the dessert to the nearest town -- along with a captured prisoner (James Best) that all the men want to retain possession of for their own personal reasons.
Unfortunately, the dialog in this low-budget opus is so bad that the audience has a hard time taking the story seriously. While watching it I felt sorry for the actors. Their dialog was embarrassingly bad.
Pernell, for example, is forced to utter lines which bear little resemblance to the intelligent scripts he was graced with in "Bonanza".
That said, I must say that "Ride Lonesome" is not great Western film. However, you should watch it and judge for yourself.
Bud the bartender of this here saloon. (Howdy!)