John Wesley Hardin never murdered a man. First they would admit to dealing him seconds at cards, then they would draw on him, so he would reluctantly take out his gun and shoot them in the back. Hardin was a proud man, being Rock Hudson and all, so what choice did he have? We know this is true, because he wrote this down himself. Hardin claimed to have killed more than 40 men, all in self-defense. He is known to have killed about two-thirds that number, one because his snoring annoyed him.
Raoul Walsh directed this Universal western in the long afternoon of his improbably long career. According to his memoirs -- which is filled with improbable and entertaining lies -- Jack Pickford once remarked that Walsh's idea of light comedy was to burn down a brothel. Even his name was a fiction (he was really Albert Walsh), and he was considered the right man to direct this movie because of the violence of WHITE HEAT, and anyone who could get a good performance out of Jimmy Cagney could get one out of Rock Hudson.
With John McIntire, Hugh O'Brien, Lee Van Cleef and Julie Adams's legs.
Raoul Walsh directed this Universal western in the long afternoon of his improbably long career. According to his memoirs -- which is filled with improbable and entertaining lies -- Jack Pickford once remarked that Walsh's idea of light comedy was to burn down a brothel. Even his name was a fiction (he was really Albert Walsh), and he was considered the right man to direct this movie because of the violence of WHITE HEAT, and anyone who could get a good performance out of Jimmy Cagney could get one out of Rock Hudson.
With John McIntire, Hugh O'Brien, Lee Van Cleef and Julie Adams's legs.