I love Westerns and I realized that I just haven’t seen that many of them so I needed to watch one. I had only ever heard of this film because I heard Noah Segan (who played a character in the film LOOPER named Kid Blue) talk about it on I Was There Too. It’s a movie not oft seen, which is surprising considering the cast and how young everyone is. Even though this after EASY RIDER, Dennis Hopper just feels so youthful in this. There are just so many good actors in this: Peter Boyle, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, M. Emmett Walsh, etc. The pacing isn’t great, but man is Dennis Hopper charming in this. There are also interesting ideas at play that are still relevant today: Can a criminal go straight and will society accept him? Not being racist and coming together as people. It’s also the only Western I’ve seen that shows factory work in an Old West environment.
