Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

gavin6942 In a horse-riding rodeo contest, some bad guys want John Weston (John Wayne) to lose. When he doesn't go along they add some insurance: a poisoned needle just under his saddle.I appreciate this film for what it is -- an early western from John Wayne before he really became a major star. Allegedly he does his own stunts, such as jumping from horse to horse. I happen to doubt he does his own singing or guitar playing, but the stunts I will grant him.Some of this is cheesy. The acting is not great, and the cinematography is incredibly jerky. Being in the public domain means it has some awful copies floating around. The one I saw on VHS was actually not too bad, though a cleanup wouldn't hurt.

utgard14 Oh, brother, this one starts out with John Wayne riding his horse and singing like he's high on wacky tobacky. His singing voice is dubbed but that just makes it more embarrassing, I think. Anyway, this singing cowboy rides into town just as the bank is being robbed. He helps marshal Gabby Hayes stop the robbers and is immediately recruited to do some undercover work with a gang that's fixing rodeos...or something like that.Polly Ann Young plays the female lead and she wears 1930s clothes even though this is supposed to take place in the Old West. There are also telephone poles throughout the entire movie that they don't even try to shoot around. They use stock footage during the rodeo scenes that clearly have people in 1930s attire in the audience. Historical accuracy was not a concern to the good people at Lone Star. This is one of many B westerns Wayne made in the '30s before he hit it big. The vast majority of these were forgettable but watchable oaters with little or nothing to recommend about them. A select few were better than average and many others were worse than average. This one's kind of crappy but if you have a good sense of humor and like to poke fun at bad movies, you might like it. Beware modern copies that have a terrible electronic score that often just starts at random spots in the movie.

zboston3 This was on a DVD with "West of the Divide", but that flick seems rather primitive, not to mention being taken from a bad print, compared to this interesting and sometimes amusing Wayne Westerner.Among the tidbits are the opening with the unbelievable scene of John Wayne as a singing, dubbed, cowboy; then there's the number of shots where Wayne has an uncanny resemblance to Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy; notice the wanted posters outside the marshal's office at the beginning of the film, one of them is for Gat Ganns, the character Wayne pretends to be in "West of the Divide"; and for some scenes Wayne's costume is almost a dead ringer for that of the Lone Ranger (all he needs is a black mask, and the white horse he rode at the opening of the movie).If your expectations are low and you're open to something different, this could be an amusing hour of watching.

JoeytheBrit At the start of this Lone Star cheapie, the Duke strays into Roy Rogers territory as he warbles in a worryingly light voice while trotting along on his trusty steed - and one can only speculate on how foolish he must have felt. Thankfully, our hero quickly becomes too involved with a crooked rodeo gang to 'entertain' us with any more serenades as he 'bulldogs' and 'Roman Rides' and does all the other things an honest cowboy has to do to get in with a gang of crooks.Subsequent fame has given us a kinder opinion of Wayne than he probably deserves in terms of his potential in these early days. Ford saw something there, but nobody else in Hollywood did, and Wayne spent most of the 30s trudging from one no-budget potboiler to another. He's better than most of the cast in this flick, but there's little to indicate the massive star power he would one day possess - it's only his size that seems to give him a presence (and that, if truth be told, is what Wayne was - a screen presence rather than an accomplished actor).All these flicks were padded out with interminable shots of cowboys riding very fast on their horses, and this one's no different. But in this one we're also treated to lengthy scenes of rodeo riders - which are actually more interesting than the horse-riding fillers, even though the numerous shots of men twisting steers' necks to near-impossible angles in order to floor them and prove their macho status are not pleasant to watch. And the Indians - who were rarely a feature in the Lone Star flicks - are relegated to the status of rodeo sideshow acts here.THE MAN FROM UTAH is by no means the worst of the Lone Stars pics (of the ones I've seen, that particular wooden spoon is reserved for RANDY RIDES ALONE) although the superhuman status given to Wayne's character is a bit over the top. Probably the best from this era is THE LUCKY TEXAN, so if, for some bizarre reason, you're in a position to choose between the two, be sure to plump for the Texan.