Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

utgard14 A troop of Confederate soldiers, led by Randolph Scott, attack a wagon train in Nevada carrying gold for the Union Army. They kill the soldiers and take the gold, only to discover immediately after that the war has been over for a month. The troops now find themselves on the run with the gold, pursued by a posse. But is the posse out to bring the men to justice or just to steal the gold for themselves?Nice Technicolor western with a good cast. Randolph Scott always does good work and he's backed up here by a fine bunch of actors, including Lee Marvin, Frank Faylen, Richard Denning, Ray Teal, and Claude Jarman, Jr. Donna Reed is lovely as usual. The plot's pretty straightforward and predictable. This isn't a Mann or Boetticher western but it's pleasant enough.

rogerblake-281-718819 Robert.E.Lee only surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia so in Nevada which was in the far West robbing a Union gold train a month later would still have been a legal military operation.Also using dynamite was an anachronism as it wasn't patented till 1867.And where did Scott and his men get their spanking new Henry rifles from? In reality if the South had had such weapons the outcome of the war may have been vastly different.However when did Hollywood let the truth get in the way of a cracking good story and this certainly is one.Scott was one of the great westerners,tall and rugged always seemed to be about forty five years old.Rarely a take your shirt off merchant one of the exceptions being Carson City which showed what a fine physique he had.His quiet good natured characters were a pleasant contrast to John Wayne's extroverts.Lee Marvin has a typical role as a loose cannon obviously suffering from the traumas of war.His fist fight with Scott (or his double) was very well staged.Marvin played a similar character in "The Raid" in which his commanding officer solves the problem by shooting him out of hand.The plot concerns Scott and his men robbing a Union gold shipment not realising that the war is over.They hide out in a staging post surrounded by some drifters who are after the gold for themselves.Among the passengers is the lovely Donna Reed and yes Scott gets the girl,who worries about a twenty four year age gap? The action sequences directed by the great Yakima Canutt are far superior to the average western of the time.It is the only western directed by Roy Huggins,why he never continued to make main stream films is a mystery to me,he was lost to television.Scott made some outstanding westerns directed by Andre De Toth and Budd Botticher,this film is by far the best of the rest,a thoroughly entertaining western.

Tweekums As this film opens a group of men hide among the rocks in the Nevada desert waiting for a wagonload of gold belonging to the Union Army to arrive. After a brief fire fight the wagon is theirs; there is one surviving soldier and they tell him that they are Confederate troops, led by Major Matt Stewart; on a special mission... he tells them that the war has been over for a month! Not knowing whether or not to believe him they head to their rendezvous. Here they quickly realise the man was telling the truth but their contact doesn't say anything to them as he intends to keep the gold for himself while the troops returned to Texas. Bainter, a hot-headed soldier shoots the man and the rest of the troop takes his wagon and head onwards until they meet a posse looking for them; some quick thinking from Stewart buys them some time but they know they will soon be back looking for them. After an accident leads to the loss of the wagon they hijack the passing stage coach and head to the station with the posse in pursuit. Once there they are holed up along with the two passengers, one of whom is a Union Army nurse and the old man and his daughter who run the station. As the time passes it becomes clear that the posse wants them all dead so that they can get their hands on the gold; tensions also mount within the group as Bainter starts to make advances on the nurse. Not all of them will make it out alive and not all of the dangers are outside.This was a solid B western with plenty of action at the start including the initial ambush and an exciting chase where the men on the stage flee the pursuing posse. Once in the station house there are still exciting moments although for the most part the events just serve to ratchet up the tension till the exciting finale where the survivors try to make their escape from the burning building during a heavy downpour. Randolph Scott but in his usual solid performance as Stewart and Lee Marvin was suitable unpleasant as Bainter. Donna Reid does a decent job as the beautiful nurse Molly Hull but her role is not as substantial as I'd expected given her second billing. At only eighty minutes in length the film doesn't outstay its welcome and still manages to tell its story effectively; something today's film makers could certainly learn a thing or two about! If you are a fan of westerns this one is certainly worth seeing and if you are a fan of Scott or Marvin I reckon it is a must see.

RanchoTuVu Confederate special ops are sent to the Gold Country in Nevada to rob a gold shipment and then take the gold to Confederate Texas. After killing everyone, they find out that the war was over a month ago and now they are nothing more than robbers and killers. That description fits Lee Marvin's part fairly well, as when confronted by the leader of the squad played by Randolph Scott about killing the guy who was supposed to be helping them escape, Marvin answers that that's what they've been doing through the whole war. Chased by a posse of guys who are far worse than they are, they hijack a stage coach with young Donna Reed who plays a nurse, and her coach mate played by Richard Denning. The posse is led more or less by Ray Teal in another one of his classic cutthroat roles (see him in Along The Great Divide). The posse's problem is that there is no honor amongst thieves and their greed as much as other factors gets the better of them, but not before several tense scenes unfold in the way station where Scott and his men are holed up with Reed, Denning, and the father and daughter (who have their own issues) who run the place. Gold subverts just about every one in the movie, especially the cold opportunist played by Denning. That Confederate genteelness that you hear so much about in 50's westerns seems to contrast well with the greed and violence that seems about to erupt. It really doesn't extend much to Marvin's part who gets carried away with Donna Reed's good looks as he has her up against the fireplace, provoking a great fist-fight scene with southern gentleman Scott. Though the script doesn't always stand out and at times is a distraction, (maybe the story itself has some problems) this is still a western worth watching for a lot of reasons.