The Technicolor is truly gorgeous, but almost everything else: Yeesh.
I've been focusing on Westerns in the second half of 2018, and this is the first one that embodies most of my negative notions about the genre. The threats are fully externalized here — it's all cavalry vs. "hostiles," with all the internal strife minimized or played for laughs.
Contrast with Stagecoach, which has the same unfortunate faceless Native threat but draws its real power from conflicts among the passengers.…
