1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you like Lou Diamond, you'll LOVE this movie!, May 23, 2011
I love westerns and I like Lou Diamond, plus I knew this was a remake of an old John Wayne/Gail Russell movie in the 1940's. I ordered the movie and it arrived within 3 days. The remake was great but not as great as the 1947 movie....back then they did more elaborate scenes outdoors with cattle and horses and wagons and cliffs. This movie just "stayed on the set". But it was still a great movie with a great moral love story between a gunslinger and a young Quaker woman. I'll enjoy watching it over and over.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not a lot of action as expected from the preview, March 29, 2010
I have never seen the original so I cannot make comparisons. For me, it was slow. There was not enough action and everyone spoke in such low monotones it was frustrating. I watched it on The Hallmark Movie Channel because it DID have Lou Diamond Phillips and I have liked the westerns he has done in the past. The romance part (small that it was) had some tender moments and the two actors did a convincing job of it but there was not enough to the whole movie to want to watch it again.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Subpar Remake, January 5, 2010
This television remake of a minor 1947 John Wayne western classic not only suffers from the fact that star Lou Diamond Phillips is not the "Duke," but also from a script and direction that is definitely subpar.
Phillips is a good actor, as is his co-star, Deborah Kara Unger, but attempting to step into boots previously worn by a movie icon like Wayne is always a mistake.
The basic story about a wounded gunman who is taken in and reformed by a Quaker family is also viable, but writer Jack Nasser and director Terry Ingram, who shot their picture during a Canadian winter, do not seem to understand the western genre. The dialogue is staid, the pace and action sequences are static and the movie is, frankly, dull.
The DVD contains a "Behind the Scenes" featurette.
© Michael B. Druxman
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