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Title: Brooks best effort
Review: This film was just a couple of miscasts short of being a real classic. Why Jack Palance and Claudia Cardinale as the Mexican couple at the center of the plot? There must have been thousands of English-speaking Mexican actors who could have made them more credible. That said, though, writer and director Richard Brooks misses mighty few other beats in this often riveting and fast-paced tale of four hired guns tricked into a morass of extortion and revolutionary politics along the Mexican border. Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan were never better.
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