My summary line sounds a lot more risqué than it actually is. Turns out Kid Jarrett (James Russo) was talking about his hostage McCoy (Dermot Mulroney), while Cody Zamora's (Madeleine Stowe) offer in trade was a new fangled Gatling gun. So all you readers with a dirty mind, you don't have to go back and look it up.
Quite out of habit now, I enable captioning while watching movies because even though I got hearing aids recently, I've realized that sometimes the person doing the captioning will go out on a limb and have some fun at the expense of his employer. (See my review for "The Telegraph Trail"). In this picture, there was a scene in which the Pinkerton Detectives were questioning Josh McCoy, and the term was used twice, but captioning had it as 'Peckerton Ditinctives'. Once might have been a goof, but someone, somewhere had to work at being consistent. If you're watching this flick on Encore Westerns, check it out for yourself before someone is called to task for it.
Tell you what, I like it when a story line has their principals stay in character at the expense of personal safety. This one had two neat touches, the first was when McCoy shot Frank Jarrett (Robert Loggia) for bad mouthing McCoy's mother; the other was when Lilly (Drew Barrymore) shot scumbag Ned (Neil Summers) for being just that, a scumbag. Both instances were problematic for completing the mission, but turned out well enough for the good guys, should say gals, to come out on top.
So maybe not the most credible of Western movies, but kind of entertaining in it's own way. The female leads are in it for their eye candy appeal, with Drew Barrymore taking top honors in that particular department. That they started out as harlots working an Echo City 'parlor house' didn't seem all that credible once the action started, since virtually every close-up of the girls was carefully framed to highlight their glamorous looks. In Barrymore's case, the camera guy probably needed a cold shower between takes.
Quite out of habit now, I enable captioning while watching movies because even though I got hearing aids recently, I've realized that sometimes the person doing the captioning will go out on a limb and have some fun at the expense of his employer. (See my review for "The Telegraph Trail"). In this picture, there was a scene in which the Pinkerton Detectives were questioning Josh McCoy, and the term was used twice, but captioning had it as 'Peckerton Ditinctives'. Once might have been a goof, but someone, somewhere had to work at being consistent. If you're watching this flick on Encore Westerns, check it out for yourself before someone is called to task for it.
Tell you what, I like it when a story line has their principals stay in character at the expense of personal safety. This one had two neat touches, the first was when McCoy shot Frank Jarrett (Robert Loggia) for bad mouthing McCoy's mother; the other was when Lilly (Drew Barrymore) shot scumbag Ned (Neil Summers) for being just that, a scumbag. Both instances were problematic for completing the mission, but turned out well enough for the good guys, should say gals, to come out on top.
So maybe not the most credible of Western movies, but kind of entertaining in it's own way. The female leads are in it for their eye candy appeal, with Drew Barrymore taking top honors in that particular department. That they started out as harlots working an Echo City 'parlor house' didn't seem all that credible once the action started, since virtually every close-up of the girls was carefully framed to highlight their glamorous looks. In Barrymore's case, the camera guy probably needed a cold shower between takes.