An American-born man living in Mexico and working as a hired gun to a local boss returns to the U.S. to take care of an arms deal. Things go wrong, and from then on he goes through a series of adventures.
Entertaining western in which, however, some things do not go quite well. The love story, for example, suffers from that mixture of titillation and puritanism which infected most American movies since the advent of the Hays code. And on top of that, London is such a bad actress. On another department, the director handles some scenes featuring extras in a strange static way which I am not sure I liked. The film seems to go for adventure alone, but it also makes interesting commentary about Mexico being politically more barbaric than the United States. Highlights: a good action sequence where a stagecoach and some Apaches are chased; the protagonist's two consecutive interviews with the two big-shot Mexican brothers (played by the brilliant actors Armendáriz and Mendoza). Mitchum delivers an understated performance (doesn't he always?) which I consider to be a notch above his average.
Rating: 55
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