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(United Artists-Bandido) G Cert. "HREE years ago Richard Fleischer displayed in The Nartow Margin what was for me a new and apparently considerable talent. Violent Saturday and The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing brought to light other aspects of it, and it was his name that sent me along to see Bandido. Its flashes of brilliance aren’t quite as startling as in the earlier films, which may seem a little unenterprising in a story of gun-running in the Mexican revolution of 1916. But the pace, if unhurried, is never slow; and in Ernest Laszlo the director has found a photographer who knew how to use the attractive locations. The story’s the thing here-there is plenty of violent action-and only the Mexicans, led by Escobar (Gilbert Roland), emerge as sympathetic characters. Robert Mitchum as Wilson, who is prepared to help the rebels at a price, is more or less the hero of the story. Apparently he is supposed to develop principles of a sort as the story unfolds, which could be because he discovers a tickling round his heart which he can’t scratch; but personally I found this love interest a bit unconvincing, and I didn’t find myself warming to Wilson at all. Still, these aren’t the sort of characters you're expected to peer at. Ursula Thiess is the girl and Zachary Scott is her husband (an even less pleasant character than Wilson), who eventually gets his comeuppance.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 954, 22 November 1957, Page 24
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239BANDIDO New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 954, 22 November 1957, Page 24
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