late one night on a desolate road and in an empty saloon martin sheen spin a yarn for robert carradine of hopalong cassidy and friend track a group of murderous cattle rustler and who have kill a few men and kidnap cassidy girl . writer or director christopher coppola may have incur the wrath of william boyd purist by dare to make a modern low budget film feature their beloved hoppy and but i be glad he do it . no character should be so tie to an an actor that no one else ever be allow to play him or her again . i think it be good fun and an interesting updating of the classic programmer of the thirty and forty . though guilty of some bad acting and this be earnest enough and unpretentious and make it hard for me to dislike . the whole production be a bit odd though and but i really enjoy the scene between sheen and carridine . the fact that be watch a story within a story make the oddness and exaggeration more palatable .