Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday

Lee Marvin and Oliver Reed star in this slapstick western about an aging hero of the west and a renegade half-breed Indian out to get back the money stolen from them by a rascally politician (Robert Culp). It hasn’t aged well — Reed’s performance as a Native American is borderline offensive — but the comic energy level of the film is contagious. Somehow, you wind up laughing — or at least amused — even when you now it’s not that funny to begin with.

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