Zwei Gringos reiten nach Westen (1952)
45KZwei Gringos reiten nach Westen: Directed by Ray Nazarro. With George Montgomery, Karin Booth, Jerome Courtland, William Bishop. Lawmen infiltrate bandit gang to catch mining crooks.
“I can see why Westerns eventually withered after seeing this one. It was competently produced and had a surprisingly good and familiar cast, especially of the bad guys. George Montgomery sure looked the part.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat bothered me the most is the facile and unbelievable way the characters followed and watched each other, moved about and sneaked in and out of hideouts. The heroes conveniently and luckily see so much from their second floor room. They follow a horse-drawn wagon undetected and see so much (also undetected) from a high-up perch.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe best example of this: twice George Montgomery sneaks undetected into a highly populated bad-guy mine-smelting operation, quickly sees and grasps the entire operation and has the great luck of being next to a shipping stencil that shows the place (San Francisco) and pier number where the contraband is shipped out of the US. Then a secret service agent goes to the pier and happens to see a Chinaman depositing an envelope into a postal collection box. What luck, the agent has the post office examine all the letters in the box, and they find a letter going to a reputable citizen in Cripple Creek telling him to pay off the bad guys for the gold delivery. That bit of u0026quot;lucku0026quot; solved the case.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd then the dialog was filled with so many trite clichés.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe big surprise ending (which I wonu0026#39;t divulge) wasnu0026#39;t important, but was unbelievable and unnecessary.”
