Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Movie Review - The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
directed by Burt Kennedy
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults

There's a part of this movie (directed, sort of jokingly, by former Budd Boetticher screenwriter Burt Kennedy) that looks forward to David Webb Peoples' 1970s screenplay for Unforgiven: an awareness of change and of truths done little justice by history and storytellers. The flip side of that generosity is acknowledging the full seven years between Liberty Valance and 1969. Plus "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys" is supposed to be a comedy.