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The Appaloosa
Southwest to Sonora

USA 1966
produced by
Alan Miller for Universal
directed by Sidney J. Furie
starring Marlon Brando, John Saxon, Anjanette Comer, Emilio Fernández, Alex Montoya, Miriam Colon, Rafael Campos, Frank Silvera, Larry D.Mann
screenplay by James Bridges, Roland Kibbee, based on the novel by Robert MacLeod, music by Frank Skinner

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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The US-Mexican border, ca 1870: Trini (Anjanette Comer) desperately tries to get away from her boyfriend, the Mexican outlaw leader Chuy (John Saxon), so much so that she tries to get him into a fight with a drifter she has never met before, Matteo (Marlon Brando), and then tries to steal the drifter's horse. The plan fails from start to finish, but to not lose face, Chuy now has to steal Matteo's horse, an appaloosa, which really pisses Matteo off, so he goes after Chuy into the hert of Mexico, where everyone's his enemy. He armwrestles Chuy for the appaloosa - and loses, and is nearly killed by one of the scorpions Chuy has put at each end of the armwrestling table to sting the loser. However, Matteo gets away with the help of Trini, but now he has her in tow, and Chuy is too proud to let her go, and ultimately it all culminates in a shootout over the woman and the horse. Guess who wins!

 

A Western that desperately tries to be meaningful, and over its efforts totally forgets that it only tells a story that has been told countless times in countless B-Westerns from the 1930's and 40's - in fact, Roy Rogers made quite a few similarly themed films back then and would have been ideal for Brando's role). And The Appaloosa is not even particularly good at telling the story:. Most of the highlights, like the armwrestling or the final shootout, are rather downplayed and lack the tension scenes like these simply need, the whole setup (a guy wants his horse back - at any price) somehow lacks the urgency to really spark audience identification with the hero, and even the usually dependable Marlon Brando's method acting seems a bit tired, as if he hadn't found any proper access to his character. Of the whole cast, only John Saxon does a decent job, but then again his role is too clichéed for an experienced actor like him to fail in the first place.

In all, not really worth your time or money, there were much better Westerns out there in the mid-1960's.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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