Gunfighters of Casa Grande

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Gunfighters of Casa Grande

I found the story to be interesting and very different from most Westerns, as there are no stereotypical Hero's in it. There is the hope that the bad Cowboys will change their ways, which is interesting in and of itself. I thought the ending fitting & enjoyed watching this film.

Gunfighters Of Casa Grande is a very different western. First it was made in Spain ( different for the year it came out ( 1964)). 2: spoilers ahead: The person who ended up the hero and got the girl ( Dona María) is Mexican: Viajero 'The Traveller' while the American Joe Daylight gets killed off by Viajero. 3: Dona Maria is not the hottest woman in the movie. It is actually her maid Pacesita who ends up with 'The Kid' For those reasons plus lots of action and beautiful women, Gunfighters Of Casa Grande is worth watching. 9/10 stars.

Over the years I've watched hundreds of Westerns--both B movies and so-called A movies--and this has to be one of the worst I've ever seen. The costumes were flagrantly ill-considered, if not totally inappropriate to the individual actors, i.e. hats that seemed only reminiscently western or unsuitable to the individual actor; a hackneyed and sometimes non-existent plot; mostly no-name actors with virtually no talent; dialogue that belonged in a cartoon; and character names that bespoke of some foreign writer unfamiliar with the concept of exaggeration...not to mention unfamiliar with viewer etiquette, i.e. how not to insult the palette and intelligence of movie fans. I can think of no redeeming grace for this film except the possibility of its inclusion in a list of the worst movie Westerns of all time.

Veteran MGM B director Roy Rowland ended his career with three cheap westerns co-produced with MGM and shot in Spain. In some ways this looks like one of the gritty westerns that were being turned out by Italy, but while the body count is adequate, Rowland was too steeped in the MGM mystique -- this movie is too visually polite, the music score a tad too lush and the actors too clean to compare with Sergio Leone's 'Man With No Name', so the result is nothing particular: too pretty for grit, too gritty for a traditional B and even a script co-written by Borden Chase can't do much. The actors try to do something with their performances, particularly Alex Nicol, but his character lacks enough definition to be particularly interesting. Director Rowland's son, Steve has a featured role as 'The Kid'. One wonders how he felt about that during the shoot.