All of Kaan. Gone with the West Not all westerns are equally useful. Even if they were famous actors. Gone with the West is such a movie. Despite the participation of young James Caan and Aldo Ray, this film was not even released in 1969, when it was most logical to send it to the box office.
The film lay safely on the shelf, where it lay for about six years. In the mid-70s, Kaan was already a recognized star, and only then the producers decided to rent this picture.
This is such a simple story that there is no point in telling it. In a town in the Wild West lives a dangerous bandit, with him to fight the gunfighter. That's the whole thing. I'll just add that Aldo Ray is playing bad.
Well, all the other nuances, obscenely straightforward.
It does not help the film and the acting - again it remains just to repeat the word "straight-line". It is not known in which bank Kaan and Aldo put their charisma, but their charisma was clearly absent in this picture.
But, with all this, direct claims to the film is almost impossible to express. Formally, everything is present: entourage, atmosphere, shootouts, acting, plot, dialogue. So, it can be compared with “Man with guns” 1955 or “Young Billy”.
In the end: it seems that formally all the attributes of the Western are present, but does not leave the impression that the film is "about nothing." Perhaps anyone will find an existential meaning, I am definitely not one of them.
4 out of 10