UnowPriceless hyped garbage
MonsterPerfect Good idea lost in the noise
Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
TheLittleSongbird More Dead Than Alive had a lot of potential. It had all the ingredients for a good interesting film, due to the choice of actors and its Sergio Leone influences, with the right execution. Sadly, despite its potential, More Dead Than Alive doesn't really deliver and fits under between the don't care for and don't know what to make of categories.It certainly has its good points. More Dead Than Alive does look good, the scenery is beautiful to look at and the film is well shot. The ending is an unexpected shock and in a good way. There are also some good performances. I love Vincent Price and always have done, and while he has given better performances he still brings a command and charisma to his role in a way that few people have or can. Paul Hampton has the most colourful character of the film, and while there are some moments where he does perhaps overdo it he does show an eagerness and charm to the performance and character. Mike Henry is also good, though you do wish he was in more of the film.However, More Dead Than Alive does suffer from a lot of problems. A big problem was the story. Not the concept mind you, the concept is just great. What hinders the story actually is the lack of evenness. The first half is more action-packed, but I didn't find the action sequences particularly exciting, to me everything just seemed misconcievedly clumsy and stodgy. The prison sequence is very grisly, but senseless and I think overlong as well. The second half does deserve credit for having more twists and less predictability, but what makes it little better unfortunately is that it is here where things come to a standstill.Another big problem was the performance of Clint Walker. I did recently read one review that likened Walker to having the charisma of a sack of concrete. As harsh as that sounds, I do have to agree. I did find Walker very bland and funereal-like, and he also struck me as too young and well-groomed to have been in prison for eighteen years. On top of that, the music feels really out of place and gives a corny tone to even the most tense of moments so it was difficult to take seriously. The re-occurring song was little better, coming across as irritatingly corny.The performance of Anne Francis is an improvement over Walker's, but hers is the kind of character that doesn't give her all that much to work with, which is a shame. The dialogue does suffer from being too talky and the characters just didn't engage me, only Hampton's sparked any kind of imagination. All in all, a rather odd film that is also frustrating on how it doesn't live up to its potential. 5/10 Bethany Cox
hondo551 Add this one to the list of movies that could have/should have been better. No problems with the cast, Clint Walker and Vincent Price and Anne Francis are all as good as ever, but the concept of the story suffers from poor writing and direction and meanders all over the place. The movie opens with a failed prison break that feels and looks more like a spaghetti western and adds little to the slow, dramatic story of a gunfighter who wants to leave his past behind. This sort of story has been done before, most notably in The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck where we sympathized with the gunman and his friends and family. When the past finally catches up with Walker at the end, we're left to wonder who and why and where the past came from and not sure where our sympathies should be, it's just a means to an end.
brownish33 OK, saw the movie on DVD, it must have just been released on DVD which is good for the other reviewers who were asking for it. anyway, the story revolves around Clint walkers character "killer Cain" who killed 12 men and went to jail for about 20 years. finally gets set free and tries to start a new life, but encounters problems along the way, and cant seem to keep a job until he joins Price's gun-shooting show. this really weird kid called henry (whos supposed to be i guess a kid of 18-19 but looks like late 20's) is with Price and is very good shooter but he is also a bit off his rocker and comes off as almost homicidal at times, constantly wanting Cain to kill people and add notches to his gun, but Cain simply wont have it. he knows the error of his deeds and wants to start a new. its a very good little B-western that i enjoyed, Vincent price is chews up the scenery as always which is a good thing. Clint walker,whom i never saw before this movie, was very good as the big gentle soul who tries to redo his life. my mom grew up watching him in Shiane and she loved him as a kid. so we watched this and it was touching, at times you can tell its very 60's looking. but price was so enjoyable, as always, and it was so sad to see him die. but he got really good screen time so i cant say i feel jipped. however, the REAL shocker, and don't read anymore if you don't want to be *SPOILED!!!!*...................................Cain, who now has a wife and property and looks to finally found his place, gets visited by some guy we keep seeing earlier in the film but isn't revealed who it is, and the guy just shoots him! yeah! the guy just kills him right away, and then tells Cains crying wife that Cain killed his father 20 years ago and deserved what he got...and then simply rides away with a look of pride for avenging his fathers death. movie ends with this and shots of Cains wife crying and Cain lying dead. its very sad and VERY shocking. but this i guess was maybe a popular thing to do at the time. maybe it was to show that "violence begets violence"?perhaps was influenced by those gritty spaghetti Westerns that Eastwood made popular. i don't know, but it was a very weird ending, especially when you think its all over. but don't let that put you off from this, its still very much worth seeing. but seriously, if ANYONE could bother to explain what the hell the ending was about, i'd really appreciate it! also, movie has a WEIRD music score that i compare to the movie "ryans daughter", 2 movies that have a offbeat musical score that doesn't fit. during prices dramatic death, they play weird kinda "circus" type music and its just weird and doesn't quite make sense for such a tense scene. must've been a 60's thing, i don't know. well, enjoy the movie!
actressadefilma_2000 An interesting concept. The man with a past that never let's him live a normal life. Clint Walker is sufficiently the bowhunk and Connie Francis is pretty and pert. Nice detail in making Connie an artist and independent woman in the 1880's. The score if you can call it that was horrendous. It sounded like a score to a bad animation film mixed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Who did this???? Other than that I like the film very much and the end fight scene between Clint Walker and Mike Henry is terrific. Mr. Henry did it so well I thought he was a professional stuntman. It turns out he was an accomplished actor. Bravo!
