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Monday, March 26, 2018











     The Badlanders
1958  NR  WESTERN  1h 23min
CAST— Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Claire Kelly, Kent Smith, Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Emhardt
MUSIC— Joseph Cacciola, Louis De Francesco, Philip Green, Alexander Laszlo  DIRECTOR— Delmer Daves  BASED ON— The Asphalt Jungle (novel), by W. R. Burnett

     Entertaining adventure may not be so original but is never boring. Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine play two ex-cons, Ladd being a former geologist and Borgnine being a former cattle baron. Set free from Yuma prison they separately return to their hometown, Borgnine looking for work, Ladd seeking a partner to carry out a scheme that has been forming while locked away. Ladd knows of an abandoned mine (on what used to be Borgnine’s property) chock full of gold, ripe for the mining. He persuades Borgnine to fall in with him to relieve the mine of its burden of gold. Offers equal amounts of adventure and drama. By no means a masterpiece but not bad overall.
OUR RATING— ** ½
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