Une tres jolie surprise que ce premier film a relativement gros budget du realisateur R.G. Springsteen.
--Erick Maurel
Cole Younger is an impressive B Western by R.G. Springsteen, who made many of them, with a complicated plot written by Daniel Mainwaring (though not quite as complicated as his script for Out of the Past, 1947), beautifully photographed by veteran Harry Neuman in color and cinemascope and starring Frank Lovejoy, James Best and Abby Dalton, all of whom mostly worked in television. The film focuses on the rebellion of Texans in 1873 against dictatorial governor Edmund Davis, as Best hooks up with gunfighter Cole Younger to escape Davis's police, the so-called Bluebellies. Lovejoy is in the role of the "good bad man," which goes back to the silent days of Western stars William S. Hart and Harry Carey and when Best is accused of murdering two Bluebellies Younger enters the courtroom with guns drawn and proves that Best's friend Merlin (played by Frank Wittrock) had framed Best in order to win Abby Dalton. Best and Dalton plan to get married, Davis is voted out of office and Younger rides off alone.
As in Out of the Past alliances are constantly shifting and rearranging. Unlike TV Westerns of the time Cole Younger has mostly exterior shots and a fair amount of choreographed gunplay, as Best and Lovejoy each shoot one of a pair of twins (Myron Healey) in self-defense and spend their time punching cows while hiding out from the Bluebellies.
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