The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
I was really looking forward to this film. It was the reason i bought this Western Collection Box set One in the recent 101 Films sale.
The last days of the James and Younger Gang with Robert Duvall and Cliff Robertson... what could go wrong?
Well, everything. It was to put it mildly, bloody awful. The direction from Philip Kaufman was all over the place as was the editing (at one stage a car drove past for god sake). The characterization which should have been the basis of the film was nowhere to be seen and the soundtrack is horrible and screechy making the whole tone of the film, well, all over the place really, like the worst excesses of spaghetti westerns.
Fortunately the other three in the set i've watched so far have been okay with two more to go...plus another two box sets totaling twelve films to go.
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