Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Prismark10 Return of the Badmen is a crazy but a fun B western. It is a bit clichéd as Randolph Scott plays Vance Cordell a retired Texas Ranger hoping to settle down in Oklahoma which is just ripe for a land rush.The very best of outlaws are planning to just exactly that, a land grab as they converge to cause havoc. Led by the mean Sundance Kid (Robert Ryan) a world away from Robert Redford's portrayal. The outlaws also include Billy the Kid, the Younger Brothers, the Daltons, Wild Bill Yeager, Wild Bill Doolin. Vance manages to get one of the female outlaws to mend her ways and it also leads him to fight off two female admirers.Vance becomes a Marshall in order to take down the brutish Sundance Kid with a one on one fist fight.A likable, undemanding western.

LeonLouisRicci Name Dropper of a Western including...Billy the Kid...The Daltons...The Sundance Kid...and The Youngers.All of this Means absolutely Nothing in terms of Story or Plot. The Names are there for Sizzle and to make the Movie seem more Important than it is. None of this was Necessary because this RKO Western is Above Average with Randolph Scott (the good guy), Robert Ryan (the baddest of the Badmen), Anne Jefferies as a Pistol Packin Mama (Cheyenne), and a Gang of Familiar Faces that add some Spice to this sometimes Brutal Oater.The Cinematography is in Sharp Black and White with some Attention to Atmosphere, Cheyenne's Tomboy Violence, a Psychotic Sundance Kid, and if it's to Your Liking, Gabby Hayes as a Motormouth Banker for Comedy Relief, all make this a Notch Above Standard Stuff.Anne Jefferies and Jacqueline White spar for Randolph Scott's attention and Robert Armstrong gives one of His Better non "King Kong" (1933) Outings. Overall, it's Darker than most Westerns of its Time, thanks to that RKO Noir-ish Style and Wide Open Casting makes this Worth a Watch even for Non-Western Fans.

casper16321 Although not all are truths here I am not sure that Sundance or Billy ever came to Guthrie, OK But Bill Doolin is buried at the Guthrie, OK. cemetery. Summit View Cemetery and it is a summit view of the Cimarron River to the north. the territorial prison that is mentioned is still here but it was built in 1892 go to www.tourguthrie.com or www.facebook.com/tourguthrie for more on Guthrie OK.Which was created in one day. because of the 1889 Land Run Guthrie went from a population of zero to well over 12,000 that day. April 21, 1889 the time was set for 12noon for the canons to sound and at least 50,000 settlers were at the north starting point of what was Oklahoma Territory. In fact Oklahoma Territory was basically what is the center 7 counties of Oklahoma today. these were all surrounded by Indian Territories in 1889, and the center was not settled by anyone at all it was vacant. There was not even a railroad until 1887 when the railroad connected the state of Kansas to Texas at the south Canadian River just north of Purcell, OK. There is no town like Guthrie, OK. anywhere in the world the way it was settled... many movies were made about the Land Run... and Hollywood comes every year almost to make a movie because of its buildings and surroundings !

Mike Newton The reviewer "krorie" from Van Buren, Arkansas, goes to great length to point out how historically Return of the Badmen were, listing the dates the different real life outlaws, depicted in the film, were living and when they died. While your research is to be commended, you missed the whole point of the movie. It was made for entertainment not enlightenment. Most of the westerns made by Hollywood took liberties with the facts and were presented in a fashion that audiences could accept. The Return of the Badmen, like its predecessor "Badmen Territory" used the combined villainy of real life western outlaws to add appeal to the western. While both films were made in the late Forties, and television had not yet made an effect on the movie going public, the genre was slowly being burned out. Everything possible had been tried in order to boost box office appeal. Actually, the B western was already suffering from postwar production costs, and ticket prices in those years right before television. Many families, particularly those with small children, did not have the money for a babysitter and so spent the evenings at home listening to radio. The movie westerns did their best box office at the Saturday afternoon matinées when parents dropped off their children at the theater so they could go shopping. While Randolph Scott made many westerns, these two westerns, particularly Return of the Badmen, must have made an impression on producer Mel Brooks because he uses Randolph Scott's name as an in-joke in his 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles. The townspeople are reluctant to help their new sheriff, who happens to be black, combat the outlaw hoards which is coming to their town. One person speaks up in defense of the sheriff by saying "You would help Randolph Scott" whereupon the people reverently repeat Scott's name as they take off their hats and are bathed in a heavenly light which shines from above.