This western adventure comedy set in Mexico in 1895 has some enjoyable moments but overall is pretty lame. I expected more after the credit sequence with a "How the West Was Won" like theme song (singer unknown), but Willie Nelson and Jack Elam can't make this poorly conceived story about two gold bandits in revolutionary war torn Mexico work. When they come across the train full of madam Delta Burke and her girls, the audience is supposed to believe that Burke and Nelson get romantically involved and the other girls will toss themselves at Elam.
Burke gets to show the vulnerability in her characterization, but the only love her Suzanne Sugarbaker like character would have for Nelson realistically would be as a surrogate father. Real life husband Gerald McCraney is a Wells Fargo agent on Elam and Nelson's trail, and Alfonso Arau is the head of a group of bandits whom Nelson and Elam continuously encounter. Later on, they deal with Apaches, giving the film additional western cliches. The film (set on the curviest railroad track I've ever seen) is handsome looking, but truly insipid as far as its script and direction (veteran western director Burt Kennedy) are concerned. A near misfire in almost every way.
Burke gets to show the vulnerability in her characterization, but the only love her Suzanne Sugarbaker like character would have for Nelson realistically would be as a surrogate father. Real life husband Gerald McCraney is a Wells Fargo agent on Elam and Nelson's trail, and Alfonso Arau is the head of a group of bandits whom Nelson and Elam continuously encounter. Later on, they deal with Apaches, giving the film additional western cliches. The film (set on the curviest railroad track I've ever seen) is handsome looking, but truly insipid as far as its script and direction (veteran western director Burt Kennedy) are concerned. A near misfire in almost every way.