Great fun! Wonder if this movie helped Starrett on his way to becoming "The Durango Kid" later? That was my favorite series~ Durango's fights didn't drag on like the rest of those actors.
This is very funny &, as someone observed, meta before that even existed. The opening scene of him insisting on cold creaming his own make-up off is a hilarious reverse of the famous Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover of cowboy Gary Cooper having make-up applied (no wonder we were trying hard to look like him, but couldn't do it!). Also ironic as Columbia contract player Starrett would spend the rest of his career playing cowboys for them, so some of his character's complaints were probably true to life but Starrett was a veteran professional who made hundreds of movies & maintained a relationship with the public after retiring.
Great movie! Spencer York did not want to become just another 'human resource'. He had 'free will' and the ability to exercise his GOD-given rights. Under 'con'tract, he has little control over his life. Also, it's funny that the boy recognized Spencer but the adults didn't. The radio in Ghost Town building hide-out must be battery operated. No power.
