Modestly effective, humorless Western drama...
Roberto Frangie | Leon, Gto. Mexico | 02/11/2009
(3 out of 5 stars)
""Saddle the Wind" is the first of two 1958 Westerns in which Taylor plays a reformed outlaw... He is cast opposite a promising newcomer John Cassavetes... The sexy and flamboyant Julie London provides the love interest but her role is poorly defined and almost working from outside the plot...
Robert Taylor is a personality on screen rather than an actor... He plays here an ex-gunfighter who has reformed and is living and working on his ranch peacefully... But fate will not allow him to retire... Cassavetes, his wild young unstable brother shows up carrying a six-gun, and with a sexy dance-hall singer London...
Cassavetes' intensity did add excitement to the show... He shoots down a tough character and with his killer instinct now waked up, he attacks a group of homesteaders led by Royal Dano and sets fire to their belongings... This battle has much more cinematic electricity than the final confrontation between the two brothers...
Strong landowner (Donald Crisp) imposes himself at this point, and asks the two brothers, now troublemakers, to leave the country...
Shortly after that time, Cassavetes gets into a wild and confused struggle with Crisp's men and is wounded, but manages to escape... Taylor goes out to get him...
With some magnificent Colorado Rockies scenery caught effectively by George Folsey's CinemaScope and Technicolor photography, "Saddle the Wind" is modestly effective, humorless Western drama..."
A classic
Rodney T. Winch | AUSTRALIA | 01/26/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)
"this is a very good well paced western.
good actors and good understanding of the characters."
Saddle up for this classic
William Watts | Melbourne australia | 01/14/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Again the man who never smiles put in a great performance this time with yet another beautifull costar Julie London hot from her cameo in the Girl Can't Help It highly recomended for all the reasons you will when you purchase it and watch it this is not realy a review but a recomendation to do yourself a favour and treat yourself to a copy of this this is entertainment perfect transfer great colour great movie and did I mention Julie London William(al) watts radio presenter Australia"