SADDLE THE WIND
(M.G.M.-CinemaScope) A Cert. HE West is wide and so is CinemaScope, but barely wide enough to hold, simultaneously, the diverse conflicts which jostle one another in Saddle the Wind. We have, in turn, brother against brother, age against youth, squatters v. range riders, North v. South, and, for good measure, songstress Julie London tossed in as a gratuitous bone of contention, If there had been a sink in the ranch-house (one feels) that would have been thrown in too. That there is some fairly persuasive acting (by Western standards anyway) is not to be denied, and John Cassavates (as the gun-crazy younger brother of brooding Robert Taylor) gives a virtuoso rendition of old-fashioned delinquency. Donald Crisp and Royal Dano likewise contribute a few authentic moments, but out of the general confusion and bloodletting no clear pattern emerges.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 989, 1 August 1958, Page 17
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140SADDLE THE WIND New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 989, 1 August 1958, Page 17
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