Movie Review the Man Behind the Gun 1953

The Man Behind The Gun

An Easy-Going Gent with Deadly Guns...and a Reputation to Lucifer!

This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses equally a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts, Alan Hale Jr., Lina Romay, Morris Ankrum, Dick Wesson and Philip Carey.

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Later you've seen enough Randolph Scott westerns (this is my 51st), they all start to blend together, only this one is stranger than virtually. Scott plays a Mexican State of war veteran and notorious gunslinger who masquerades as a schoolteacher in Los Angeles in order to thwart a conspiracy by pro-slavery revolutionists who want Southern California to secede from the Union. For his comic sidekicks, one (Dick Wesson) wields a bullwhip like Indiana Jones, and the other is played by the Skipper from Gilligan'southward Island (Alan Hale Jr.). Screenwriter John Twist lives up to his proper noun, as the plot is loaded with twists and turns that don't brand a whole lot of sense. I think he flake off more than than he could…
Randolph Scott western that starts off strong with a cool opening sequence, an interesting Mexican setting and an intriguing spy plot.

The flick seems a bit dislocated by itself with Randolph one-half the fourth dimension being surreptitious as a teacher only half the time donning his full army uniform. It staggers through some twists and turns, but be ultimate letdown is the climax.

Randolph leads his men in a siege on the bad guy'southward hideout and I was all excited for a large shootout. Instead it's just a bunch of wide shots where everyone keeps firing and in that location'due south no sense of geography.

A well staged gunfight at the stop would accept saved this for me, instead the climax probably lowered my score.
I couldn't practise it, even for Randolph Scott.
Information technology's not brilliant simply I'll tell yous what…(by "you", I mean me when I'm reading this later.) Dammit if Randolph Scott'south hair isn't perfect when he takes his hat off. No hat hair, no loose strands, fucking perfect. Every bit a balding homo, I appreciate that. I'm not jealous, I'm only happy he understood the aureate mine he was working with enough to take care of information technology.

When I was growing up, we never watched Randolph Scott Westerns. I wonder why he seems to be forgotten because there is a lot of great material. Like I said, information technology's non not bad merely the story was cool and I was entertained.
A featherbrained script ruined the cohesiveness necessary for a viewer to exist invested in the characters and the consequence of the B western from Warner Brothers. Randy does his normal thing well, and the two leading ladies are expert, just it simply doesn't make this western turn out the way it could have been if it were executed better.
Here'southward an odd ane. A Randolph Scott western with a conspiracy in which replays an ground forces vet trying to break a plot of southern segrationists planing to make California intermission from the spousal relationship to form a new "slave state". At same time it moves around trying to striking every bit many Scott vehicles expected beats every bit possible. So it moves from weird to familiarity all the time. There's many off beat touches and Scott is at hid more angry mode. It is a shame Feist direction is a bit sluggish.
When u sentinel a randolph scott western u go your money's worth-hither too
Lesser only still fun Randolph Scott western. The plot about controlling water in Southern California reminded me a fleck of Chinatown.