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RG Springsteen (1963)

78min

PG Certificate

Review

Our Score

by Tony Sloman

In this western, baby-faced Audie Murphy and bluff Charles Drake star as escaped convicts who become involved in a robbery. There's a marvellous supporting cast of western regulars, including The Gunfighter's nemesis Skip Homeier, and Strother Martin and LQ Jones, six years before The Wild Bunch. Director RG Springsteen tells the tale tersely and tautly, and, unusually for a Murphy western, it's in grim black and white. Ten years later the title was hijacked for a dull Rock Hudson/Dean Martin vehicle.

Summary

Two escaped convicts are forced to help out in a hold-up organised by their fellow fugitives, leaving them desperate to engineer an escape and thwart the villains' plans. Western, starring Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Kathleen Crowley and Skip Homeier.