Review by moonspinner55

Screenwriters David Newman and Robert Benton, then-hot off their success with "Bonnie and Clyde", penned this story of a bandit in 1880s Arizona who is given 10 years in a desert prison after robbing $500K from the home of a rancher (the crooked man gets caught when he and the rancher visit the same brothel on the same night). Also incarcerated: an infamous train robber; a drunk who took a shot at the sheriff, plus a couple of inept con-artists and a young man who accidentally killed his date's father with a billiard ball. Although the film never rises above the level of inconsequential fare, there are a lot of talented people on-screen to watch, including Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith, Lee Grant, Bert Freed, Jeanne Cooper (who flashes a breast or two), Pamela Hensley (who flashes a breast or two), Victor French, Alan Hale and Barbara Rhodes. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz later complained that his 165mn final cut was drastically edited down to 126mns by Warner Bros., leaving Grant in particular with reduced screen-time. It looks good and moves fast, but there's nothing overwhelmingly memorable about the picture--it fades quickly in the memory. Trini Lopez sings the awful title song, composed by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams. **1/2 from ****