Word: mccrea
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...saddle tramp (Joel McCrea) is a footloose cowpoke, lazy and carefree enough to be played by Bing Crosby. Circumstances make him responsible for the care & feeding of four orphan boys and a girl (Wanda Hendrix) who is fleeing her lecherous uncle. He reluctantly takes a job with a child-hating rancher (John Mclntire), hides and feeds his charges in the nearby woods. Wanda and the tots (help him with his chores and eventually with the unmasking of a foul plot against the rancher...
...picture's early promise of gentle parody is paid off first in juvenile whimsy and folksiness, finally in a mild flurry of standard ridin' & fightin'. Neither Technicolor nor all the warmth of McCrea's amiable personality can conceal the fact that the film is short on the basic ingredient of any western: action...
...Outriders (MGM) is a horse opera with a Civil War overture and some of the prettiest scenery that Technicolor has ever coaxed out of the wide West. Three rebels (Joel McCrea, Barry Sullivan, James Whitmore) escape from...
Yankee prison camp in Missouri, join Quantrill's raiders and ride off to Santa Fe on a treacherous mission: to guide a gold-bearing wagon train into a bushwhackers' ambush. The wagons also carry beautiful, red-haired Arlene Dahl, who brings out strong, silent love in McCrea and villainous lust in Sullivan. Brought this far, any moviegoer should be able to gallop into the sunset...
...offset its staleness, Territory has several passages of refreshing cinematic excitement. The train robbery has a pleasant flavor of old-style westerns. For admirers of the great outdoors, the shots of McCrea's flyspeck flight across a stupendous cliff face are alone worth the price of admission...