Overheard sometime around 1966: "Y'know, Mike, what we need is another bad movie movie to foist on the public." "Great idea, Sam, but what can we do? All the bad ideas have been taken." "Yeah, but, what if...what if we combine a bad movie with a really bad actor? Someone who's never been in a movie before? Maybe someone with a big name in another field?" "Great idea, Sam! I guess that's why they pay you the big bucks! But who can we get?" [...Meanwhile, in the background, we can hear, ever so faintly, a radio playing the song "Only the Lonely"...]
Even though this is one of the very few bullet-shooting guitar western's ever filmed, it is not a good movie. A singing southern spy is tasked with stealing gold bullion from the San Francisco Mint to help finance the Confederacy. The plot is weak, the writing is terrible, the direction is pitiful, and the acting is on the par of a second grade class play about the importance of the food pyramid. But Roy Orbison sings seven songs.
Roy should have stuck to singing, which he did afterwards. This was his first and only film. To show how unqualified he was as an actor, please consider that he was actually proud of this flick.
Enjoy the songs, if nothing else.
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I was previously unaware that this was a machine-gun guitar film. (Now to see if using Alice's computer will allow me to post, for some weird reason.)
ReplyDeleteApparently so. I'll try my computer again in a while (depending how much reassurance younger cat needs that she isn't being abandoned for the night--we have to keep the two cats segregated, as you might recall, since younger cat keeps trying to pick a fight (that she, when we hoped she would get over this, will invariably lose...elder cat has no love of fighting, but is both bigger and smarter).
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