Brat Pack Western with only two of them - Dean Martin and Joey Bishop - with Alain Delon playing a role that might have been intended for Frank Sinatra... a rival of Martin's in love and guns... but to be fair the role has been clearly adjusted for him playing a Spaniard. He's quite animated and fun, Martin is fun. The film is a little lazy and the comic Indian stuff is bad (Bishop plays an Indian). It's got 60s Universal crapness and could have done with more star power - for instance the similar Four For Texas also had Ursula Andress, Anita Ekberg and Charles Bronson, this has Peter Graves, Rosemary Forsyth and Tina Aumont... just not the same. It has its pleasures and Martin and Delon fans especially will get something out of it.
Sidebar: Delon was a Western fan, an admirer of Sam Peckinpah and tried to maek two films with him. I wonder if this prompted the French stuff in Major Dundee?
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