Highly successful, realistic account of life as cowboy, as hotel clerk Jack Lemmon decides to join Glenn Ford on cattle trail. Based on Frank Harris's questionable autobiographical book 'My Reminiscences as a Cowboy', adapted by Edmund H North and (uncredited) Dalton Trumbo. Loved the stuff about the horse 'having a brain the size as a walnut' and not being a cowboy's best friend at all.
Good earlyish (Some Like It Hot was the year after) role for Lemmon as man who becomes tougher over the trail. With Anna Kashfi, Dick York, Brian Donlevy, Richard Jaeckel.
Splendidly photographed (night scenes especially) by Charles Lawton, edited by William Lyon and Al Clark, music by George Duning, for Columbia.
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