Reissue title: War of the Wildcats
The IMDB plot summary is correct and I transcribe it here: "Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen." Written by Jim Beaver, email: jumblejim at prodigy dot net
This is a routine Western, though admittedly it is a little above average for Republic. The plot is beyond predictable, but it entertains nevertheless, though only mildly. Intrigue, fistfights, romance, a competition between good guy and bad guy, where neither is on the extreme of each category, and there you have it. The best thing of the movie is something which is not really there as an actualization, only as a potentiality: it is a certain quality of open-endedness, of infinite progression and infinite oscillation. The slightly abrupt ending suggests that the fight is not really over; ditto the inner fight that the leading female character experiences, which would make her switch male partners on and on indefinitely.
Rating: 39
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