Where cattIe drives end, troubIe begins. Thirsty, trigger-happy cowmen pour into Dodge City, where might too often makes right. There ought to be a law in this corrupt, buIlet-ridden town. Once trail boss Wade Hatton (ErroI FIynn) pins on a badge, there is.
In his first of eight Westerns, Flynn is as able with a six-shooter as he was with a swashbuckIer's sword. He confronts lynch mobs, sIams outlaws into jail and escapes (along with co-star OIivia de Havilland) a fiery, Iocked raiIroad car. Cheered for FIynn's sagebrush debut, its vivid Technicolor Iook and spectacuIar saloon brawI that may have employed every available stunt person in Hollywood, Dodge City Iater gained another distinction when it inspired Mel Brooks' cowboy parody Blazing Saddles. Double feature, anyone? |