David Newman and Robert Benton, authors of Bonnie and Clyde and There Was a Crooked Man, are the smart alecks of Hollywood, cutting through history's mists to remind us of man's universal pettiness. Their promising story of a good Christian lad, who flees from the Civil War draft and falls in with a ratty gang traveling West, is insistent about the ruthless realities of the prairie. The authors are probably accurate, but nothing more. Backgrounds of endless, even-tempered Great Plains contribute a sense of magnanimity that does the movie no harm. (1972) — Duncan Shepherd
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