Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Ricardo Daly The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

classicsoncall All the while I'm watching this story, it seemed like a parody Western to me. Where else have you seen a bead studded holster like the one Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) wore; he looked like he belonged in "Blazing Saddles" along side Cleavon Little. The principal villain Blackie (Sheldon Leonard) struck me the same way too with the Snidely Whiplash mustache and odd wardrobe. And then there was the interminable slap and kiss routine between Cameron's character and Yvonne De Carlo's Lorena Dumont. Gee, two or three times would have been enough, but even after that exchange they went for a bonus round later in the picture.I don't know, this movie just didn't feel right to me. Cameron himself looked like he might have been trying to channel Randolph Scott, what with all the outfit changes and a look that resembled his contemporary. Scott wouldn't have gotten involved in all the gimmicks though, like using the old tree escape from a posse chasing on horseback, not once but twice. Then, when Johnny gets hustled off to jail for manslaughter, the six year interlude blew by in a flash, not even a commercial break could have fixed that disconnect.And gosh - who thought it was a good idea for the six year old daughter of Hart and Rena to shoot a rattlesnake in her bedroom? Boy, the filmmakers sure were stretching for ideas there. With the chemistry and motivations being all wrong in the story between the principals, I just couldn't warm up to this one, even with Andy Devine and Fuzzy Knight in the cast. Come to think of it, even they didn't seem up to their normal hi-jinks. I think I'll go watch "Blazing Saddles" again.

Dfree52 I came across this on YouTube after viewing a website that highlighted women in westerns from the 40s and 50s.I picked this at random and was very surprised at the result.In Technicolor, the ravishing, raven haired Yvonne DeCarlo is Lorena who runs and is the star attraction of her own saloon. Drifter Jonathan Hart (Rod Cameron) wanders in and almost immediately gets into a brawl with Blackie (Sheldon Leonard) and his gang.***POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT***When Lorena tells Jonathan she doesn't allow fighting in her place, the sparks between the two start to fly.Each time Lorena winds up and slaps Jonathan...Jonathan grabs her and lays a passionate kiss on her. This continues for a while, Lorena is both angered and aroused and is carried off to her boudoir.A shotgun wedding of sorts ensues, but Jonathan is sent to prison by his rival for Lorena, Blackie. Jonathan returns 6 years later and finds that he's a daddy of a little girl, Lorena is her mommy. Jonathan is now faced with the prospect of instant fatherhood and coping with the ultra independent Lorena, who can take care of her self and their child. There's music, dance,and some comedy...plus a climax near a waterfall. Along for the ride are Andy Devine and Fuzzy Knight. The tone reminds one of the Taming of the Shrew. There's action at the conclusion and a reckoning of Lorena and Jonathan, while Lorena is over his knee.Odd mix of western action, music, comedy and perhaps 1945 political correctness, but it works. Cameron and DeCarlo are great together and remind you of John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man. Oh yeah, the climax of this movie will remind you of Wayne/O'Hara in McClintock! too.

wylecoyote0321 I love Western Movies, this was one great movie, it an oldies, but I wish every Western Movie lover to see this Movie, it was one of the first Movies in color.this Movie concern a western cowboy, who the law was looking for , this guy after going to jail and getting out , return to see this good looking girl he had a brief affair with, the surprise was he did not know they had a daughter together, one of the surprise of this movie, this young girl { daughter }. really did a great job of action in this Movie, i highly recommend this Movie, but I do not think you will be able too, it an old classic.

nstn6717 This is an atypical western. Here there is more humour than suspense, and humour of a timeless nature. When a man loves a woman, or vice versa, there are always trouble spots and the inevitable consequences of the loving union. Take the timeless difficulties between the genders and the mischief of their offspring and you have quite an entertaining and engrossing story. There is a thrilling ending to this romp in the west, and definitely some exaggerated but not politically correct philosophies that reflect the attitudes prevalent in the era when the movie was made. But it is all good fun!