Fresh
The Duke knows by instinct what audiences accept without question: whatever he may be called in the script, he is always unmistakably John Wayne. And who would have it any other way?
Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine
Overview
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
Director and cast
- Howard Hawks Director
- John Wayne as Colonel Cord McNally
- Jorge Rivero as Captain Pierre Cordona (Frenchy)
- Jennifer O'Neill as Shasta Delaney
- Jack Elam as Phillips
- Christopher Mitchum as Seargent Tuscarora Phillips
- Victor French as Ketcham
- Susana Dosamantes as Maria Carmen
- Sherry Lansing Cast
- David Huddleston Cast
- Mike Henry Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Fresh
If it lacks the formal perfection of Rio Bravo and the moving elegy for men grown old of El Dorado, it's still a marvellous film.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
In this case, the story itself doesn't matter much. We go to a classic John Wayne Western not to see anything new, but to see the old done again, done well.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The fact that its best action sequence, the first, was directed by the second unit is emblematic of Hawks's relative lack of engagement with the material.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Hawks' direction is as listless as the plot.
Variety
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