It’s a really strong outline and narrative for a caper film, with 3 really strong performances by Van Cleef, Neville Brand and Jack Elam as the 3 heavies—
John Payne is the perfect straight guy but at times the film is asking too much of him to play a badass- he can’t turn that switch like Jimmy Stewart can in his Anthony Mann films
Great scene and line about Payne “was the guy who saved your life in Iwo Jima, huh?… I’d buy him”
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