More Dead than Alive

4/2/2022

> Once again, the internal conflict of the protagonist, Cane, (at least the first part of the film) goes into the background -which is not anything after 18 years in prison and the association lynches the ex-convict in each town he arrives at. and asks for honest work - to shine a spotlight on the shadowy recesses and abysses? of young Billy, collaborator and star of Dan Ruffalo's show; isn't this Billy enough of a wink to William Bonney? His inexperience seasoned with infallibility with the revolver, seasoned with the reckless mania of not remembering -like that friend of Pat Garrett- to be mortal? And fatally it is known that the incredible skill of Billy did not even serve to check that his gun was loaded; and fatality that it is known that Cane finally seemed to have the glory, but he

4/7/2024

**_Clint Walker as an ex-con in Arizona and Vincent Price a Western show barker_** In 1891, a former gunfighter (Walker) gets out of prison in Yuma and is taken aback by how things have changed in the two decades that he’s been locked up. While he tries to stay away from guns, he settles for a trick-shot artist at a traveling show (ran by Price). He deals with a rash young buck (Paul Hampton) while taking interest in a lovely artist (Anne Francis). “More Dead Than Alive” (1969) is similar to the great “Bandolero” from the year prior, but with a lower budget, a meandering script, and less attention to detail (e.g. the vintage Schwinn bicycle with chrome and plastic parts). Seven years later “The Shootist” would borrow the basic plot with a bigger budget, just exchanging John Wayne for