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2.0 out of 5 stars
Brothers keeper, November 10, 2005
This is a Story Written by Robert I Holt and the Famous Frank Gruber who gave us Stories such as "BROKEN LANCE" AND "BIG LAND" and many others.This story is about a family of twin brothers born to White Father and an Indian Mother.One grew up in town yet respected the Indian Values and the other with the indian's but gone wild,Both played by William Shatner.Only diffrence to tell them apart was by the colour of their eyes,one with black eyes was called Notha killing and plundering and living wild with his renegade tribe, while other was of blue eyes called Johnny Moon, always getting mistaken,punished , beaten up for the crimes of the other .Till one day he could stand no more so he asked Notha for a showdown to finish this once for all in the town of Rio Hondo where the sheriff Logan played by Joseph Cotten.It is a Battle bitween Good and and the one gone astray.William Shatner acted very well in this one as always but this movie lost the grip and became a routine half way down.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Has what it takes to be Camp Classic, December 25, 2008
MST 3000 and Ed Wood revivals prove there is a market for astoundingly bad movies, and that is where this one should be categorized. Out of the league of Shatner's "pro" work, or real westerns for that matter. It apparently was a throw-away, purely for the foreign market (note the excessive violence). What does it offer the howler devotee? Let's try to list it: 1) Awesome script. (The sheriff had better not interfere while I fight with myself.) 2) Leering, clownish supporting cast. 3) Horseback riding to mood music from a Vegas floor-show band. 4) A couple of pompous Omega-Glory style speeches delivered by Shatner standing on a mountain, with Sun records tape echo. 5) Outdoors dialog all dubbed in from sessions taped in a small, hard-paneled room. Some Spanish actors apparently redubbed from American stand-ins. 6) Shatner's Texas accent vacillates between Sacramento and Belfast Ireland. 7) Bar-fight destroys all the furniture, then the lawman orders the surviver, "sit down!" 8) Horses continually skittish, veering to one side while trying to walk forward, you would swear they are embarrassed to be filmed. 9) Horse rides into the middle of the frame and disappears, turns out he walked behind a large mirror sitting in front of the old hotel, attempt at Hitchcock cinematography? 10) Shatner, all posing and dramatic pauses, on screen for the whole blasted thing - Friends, our family hasn't laughed so hard since we saw Airplane for the first time. Get out your credit card right now; you won't be disappointed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Two! Two! Two Kirks in one!, December 2, 2006
Wait, isn't that Kirk?! OMG, look! That's Kirk too! Aimlessly clicking around the dial one evening, we were quickly sucked in when this movie aired on Turner Classic Movies. This is a delightfully bad 60's-era double-cheesey Kirk McWhopper featuring James T in a dual role as both cowboy and Indian! Yes! Identical twin brothers except (oh, the delicious plot twist...) one is good and the other is bad!!!!11!
Filmed in Spain between the 1st and 2nd season of Star Trek, this movie boldy uses the same bad music, bad dialog, bad editing, bad camera work, and obviously the same bad acting as the original Trek. Blonde-Indian-Kirk eats peyote, does some war-whoops, and even busts into a god-like reverb as he tries to get the Comanches riled up. As a special bonus, some actors are dubbed, and some of the audio is out of sync. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this movie. If you fancy yourself a student of Bad Cinema, whether or not you enjoy The Kirk, you owe it to yourself to get this movie. Good clean fun.
Sample dialog: "Everywhere I go he follows, with his thieving and his killing, until I cannot live in peace!"
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