Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

jacobs-greenwood This is one of many (comedy) Westerns directed by Burt Kennedy; it was written by Ronald M. Cohen and Dennis Shryack. Robert Mitchum stars as Marshal James Flagg (about whom there's a ballad that plays throughout the film, in the background), an aging lawman whose skills and service helped tame the wild west such that Mayor Randolph Wilker (Martin Balsam) and the residents of his town named Progress have forgotten what it was like in the "old days" when bandits robbed trains. Buddy Hackett appears briefly (uncredited) as a townsman.When Flagg hears from an old hermit friend of his named Grundy (Douglas Fowley) a description that makes him believe that train robber Big John McKay is in the area, he warns the mayor saying that he needs to organize a posse of men. But the mayor is up for reelection soon and he certainly doesn't want any furor to spoil things for him, so he gives Flagg a gold watch and retires him, leaving the deputy marshal he can better control, a big soft lug named Howard Boyle (Dick Peabody), in charge.But Flagg decides to follow-up on what Grundy had told him, and finds the outlaws camp near the river. He rousts their horses and sneaks up on McKay (George Kennedy). However, Deuce (John Davis Chandler) gets the drop on him and gang leader Waco (David Carradine) laughs at the too old coots. McKay, it seems, is along for the ride and NOT in charge. In fact, he too is aged and not respected like he once was. He stops Deuce from killing Flagg so Waco leaves McKay in charge of taking care of the lawman. Flagg and McKay brawl, which exhausts both of them and Grundy has to help them back to town, where the now former lawman interrupts the amorous advances of his mayor with another man's wife, Tina Louise as Mrs. Flannagan. Of course, the mayor doesn't take Flagg's warnings seriously this time either, so the lawman returns to the boarding house where he lives; the proprietor Mary (Lois Nettleton) and he are somewhat romantically engaged.Later in town, Grundy gets into a scuffle with Deuce over the attractive older saloon owner Polly (Marie Windsor), which leads the outlaw into shooting the hermit in the back. Before Boyle too gets shot, Waco intervenes to keep things quiet before the train arrives the next day. Upon learning of Grundy's murder, McKay decides to work with Flagg to stop Waco's gang from robbing the train. They decide to board it early and keep it from stopping in Progress; their efforts are hindered by an old train conductor (John Carradine) who recognizes outlaw McKay but not Marshal Flagg. So the two are arrested, temporarily, before they escape to take control of the train and run it through town and an automobile parked on the tracks. The outlaws give chase and then, encouraged by the mayor, so do the townsfolk in their back-firing automobiles and horse drawn carriages. It's a sight to see! Eventually, the train comes to a bridge that's out and it crashes down a hillside shortly after Flagg and McKay have jumped clear. There's a climactic shootout in which McKay has a showdown with Waco. Guess who wins? Then the mayor congratulations Flagg, who puts the cuffs back on McKay promising to take him in.

Robert J. Maxwell Burt Kennedy wrote some curiously interesting Westerns for director Otto Boetticher and star Randolph Scott in the 50s. As a director, Kennedy was no better than routine. Of course it's hard to enliven retrograde Westerns like this one, or like John Wayne's late "The Train Robbers." Serious Westerns were declining in popularity because the television schedule was full of them and because by the time this one was released the turmoil was no longer on the plains of Texas but on the streets of New York. Three years later, "Dirty Harry" would make the transfer clear.The Westerns were ripe for ridicule and they came in for their fair share -- "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "Cat Ballou." "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys", after introducing a theme involving the obsolescence of bandits and gunfighters, dismisses it and turns into an attempt at comic farce. It doesn't work because it's simply not funny enough.Aging good guy Mitchum and aging bad guy Kennedy -- neither of whom looks particularly aged -- meet and team up to foil a train robbery. The train -- un-held-up -- roars through the station at the town of Progress and the bandits and the entire town race after it, bullets flying, a light-hearted gallop in the musical score. Wagons fall apart and spill their occupants all over. More than one wagon. Several wagons fall apart, wheels flying everywhere. Does anyone think that, in itself, is amusing? Maybe kids who have never seen a movie before. To an adult it looks more like desperation. The locomotive must necessary crash over a cliff taking several empty cars with it.Not to demean the cast. Both Mitchum and Kennedy do fine in their roles, as well as can be expected. Two of the Carradines have small roles, and it's great to see Marie Windsor again, Queen of Noir. Nois Nettleson does well in a small part too, and she's quite handsome.But after reducing the broth, there's nothing much to see here folks. Move along now.

KyleFurr2 This movie was directed by Burt Kennedy, who also directed another great western in 65 called The Rounders, that had Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford. This one is sort of different but they both had some comedy in them. This one stars Robert Mitchum as an old sheriff who is retired against his wishes by the mayor, played by Martin Balsam, who only cares about the election coming up. George Kennedy plays an outlaw who used to big in his day but now is the third wheel in a gang run by David Carradine. Both Mitchum and Kennedy, even though they used to be enemies, sort of team up together to stop Carradine from robbing the train even though they don't have too. This movie came out in 1969 the same year as The Wild Bunch, which Mitchum turned down but this movie is closer to Peckenpah's earlier film Ride The High Country.

Mickey-2 ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys", released in 1969 gave two wily screen veterans, Robert Mitchum and George Kennedy, a chance to have some fun in a western that pokes a lot of fun at itself and the times that it was portraying. It's the turn of the century and the local town marshal, James Flagg, played by Mitchum, is still taking himself seriously as the town marshal, even though the town sees him as a reminder of the unpleasant past, and not much of a positive image for the town's future. Flagg does sense that an upcoming robbery could occur, as he hears that a long-time adversary, Big John McKay, played by Kennedy, is in the area and heading up a gang of young outlaws. Mitchum wants to get a posse together, but the town gets him a retirement party, instead, and accepts a sit-back and wait attitude. Mitchum goes after the gang on his own, manages to capture McKay (Kennedy), but finds that the young band was going to oust McKay anyway, characterizing him as too old and too slow to be of any use. Kennedy decides to help the marshal capture the gang, thus he becomes one of the good guys, and the two take out after the bad guys.Director Burt Kennedy always seemed to produce at least one scene that would be pure slapstick. This was no exception, as one will see from viewing the wild chase scene at the end of the film. Glenn Yarbarough, former lead singer of the folk group, The Limelighters, has a nice rendition of a tune that sets the stage for Marshal Flagg. To the viewer, enjoy, and don't expect this film to get serious, it was made simply for relaxation and fun.