Badlanders

Year: 1958

Grade: C

Country: USA

Director: Daves

Review

the music was too present though i don’t know whose fault that is since allmovie.com, imdb.com and my grandpa’s book don’t have composer info for this film; perhaps it was just reassembled from other mgm films. (the great) john seitz does the cinematography, but i didn’t find it to be too exceptional. alan ladd and ernest borgnine were decent, but not nearly as inspiring as they have been in other work (shane for ladd and wild bunch for borgnine). daves, also, has done better work, though nothing as good as ladd, seitz or borgnine. all in all this is an average western version of the great film noir “the asphalt jungle.” .