Robert Mitchum, Repeat of the Nevada In fact, we have a complete repetition of the Nevada. Again, the whole film is devoted to such a monosyllabic plot that it fits only the textured Robert Mitchum with a gun on a horse and a beauty, and if you look closely, the ordinary girl to whom he devotes all his time. This time it all starts with a stagecoach attacked by criminals, and ends with a heroic Mitchum defending his woman.
Truth be told, just like Nevada, I don’t give this film any serious credit. Ordinary and ordinary b-western. Heroic motives and a new hero are assumed. Such a pragmatic extravaganza, where all the main elements of the genre are marked - stagecoach, law and justice, court, cattle ferrying, saving a beautiful lover, shooting. But, at the same time, the tape remains quite emotionally cold, crafty. Unless, perhaps, there is a reason for fans of the subject to somehow compare the film with its prototype - shot even earlier by the eponymous film of Phil Rosen in 1934.
So, we have nothing more than a reflection of the recent Nevada, hastily made in the hope of cementing the success of a sharply gaining Mitchum. For all the monosyllabus and simplicity of both tapes, Nevada seemed to me more cute. But "West Peco" came out quite boring.
4 out of 10