This could be the strangest movie Dean Martin ever made…and considering how many films he made with Jerry Lewis, that’s saying a lot. In the movie, Martin plays Joe Baker, a criminal cowpoke with plans to do ‘something big.’ All he needs is a Gatlin gun, which he can get from a dirty dawg named Johnny Cobb (Albert Salmi) who will only part with the big gun if Baker brings him a woman. Any woman. The bulk of the movie has Baker holding up stagecoach after stagecoach looking for a woman to trade, finally settling on Mary Anna Morgan (Honor Blackman), the wife of the local Calvary colonel (Brian Keith). Confused? Then you’re thinking too hard. It’s almost unfair to try and judge this movie on anything but its sheer silliness, and on that scale it’s a surefire hit. If you can laugh when Baker’s horse shows his teeth (they are gold capped), then you’ll have fun. If you can’t, then don’t bother.
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