Gone with the West (1975)

Wonderful character development!

Very well executed

Sorry, this movie sucks

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

I'm sorry but anybody who didn't get the humor of this comic farce probably thought "My Dinner With Andre" was stupendous cinema. Caan's facial expressions, Powers' ridiculous antics, Ray's over-played bad guy, and even Sammy's gunslinger caraciture keep me coming back to this one right after re-watching "Blazing Saddles". To call this the worst of the worst is to ignore such snooze inducing schlock as anything by Michael Moore, the aforementioned bore fest with Andre, and the original "3:10 to Yuma" if we're comparing Westerns here...

Newspaper folk from the city, doing a piece on ghost towns, get an earful from a batty old crone near San Juan Batista who tells them a tall tale of the Old West. Excruciating western, apparently played for laughs, pits lonesome cowpoke James Caan against small town strong-arm Aldo Ray, with Stefanie Powers as an Indian love-interest who apparently doesn't speak English. Showing definite, crippling signs of post-production interference, this threadbare film is so ineptly edited, one feels as though he's watching a proposed pilot for a TV series which never sold. It isn't fair to call the end results a 'film' or a 'movie'...it's simply an excuse for the actors (good ones, mind you) to make a little extra money. Hopefully, the cast and their managers were well-paid. NO STARS from ****

A not-so-reputable hero and less-than-innocent Indian maid have both come to a town of Black Nullar to settle an old scores. Starrs James Caan, Sammy Davis Jr and Stephanie Powers. A terrible and unwatchable film right from the start. Caan walks around aimlessly without much dialog to figure out this plot less direction less film fraud. It looks like a bunch of stunt performers and Caan decided to Western dress and act like foolish and crazy. Stephanie Power arrives with more dialog but all in Spanish and the viewer is still left in the dark about what is going on in this hapless film. Was there a script or director on this film mistake? It doesn't look like it. The only guilding light of this film is that it starts in Vasquez Rocks fort at Aqua Dulce Cailf that has long been torn down. The fort was a important popular film location for years, now lost.

Rebecca: This is so bad it's almost good.Enid: This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again. "Gone With the West" (a/k/a "Little Moon and Old Jug or Jud"), is a James Caan-Sammy Davis Jr. western best described as "The Rat Pack on LSD". The cast includes "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.". It is a horrible western, made even worse by the condition of the print they used to make the DVD (a 2005 release by Mill Creek Entertainment), but it does feature one of the most intense cat-fights in cinema history.Old Jug McGraw (Caan) and April Dancer are sent to the town of Black Miller by Mr. Waverly to investigate a Thrush plot led by a former Green Beret sergeant. There's opium dealers too, a lot of dogs, and a woman named Billie, who's kinda purdy. Everything gets straightened out, though I just watched the whole movie and I couldn't tell you how.