after read the review and it become obvious that everyone intellectualized this work . how utterly boring . oh how about the good ol day and there be nothing like it . of all the comment no one express any emotion to this work or any other . i grow up just after the end of the steam age and this cinematic gem along with danl boone grace the saturday afternoon matinées . this be an annual movie that make the round and fill the seat with gabbing and yapping and farting and giggling and snot monster like myself or be self . and it be a movie theatre filler at the time . almost as big a the wizard of oz . imdb insists that every critique contain something about the plot . problem be be that it be rather a template . here go . randolph scott ( cowboy or hero ) gather friend and go defeat those evil people . hooray . all of u kid figure out that plot before we plunk our quarter down to watch it . that be just about the plot line of every scott and john wayne and roy rogers film ever make . if you take the time to go back and review each and every movie just do not ask for surprise . one must remember the context of the time . there be no or little tv . none for kid . there be school . there be the great outdoors . there be toy gun . no cyber time . and the steam age have just collapse . but movie such a this provide the entertainment and fill the imagination of young whippersnapper . even the girl get into it . this movie be the entertainment . and it be just as mindless a anything produce today . it have a purpose originally of be propaganda . but quickly come to be kids movie . our father have experience the real thing . and it wouldn not be until sam peckinpah a decade later who finally lavish the red splash of imitation blood in realistic and copious quantity . not until his directorship do anyone die slowly and with great pain and miserably . until peckinpah war and gun fight be a rather bloodless affair . thanks sam . to see a movie have little or no blood and the adult do not mind . they wouldn not have tolerate it i think . no gut spray the shattering plant life . so this movie have all of the glory and none of the gory . gung ho be suitable for kid then . you will see that i assign a four to this rating . why would i do that . well . it be a terrible movie . no matter how i love it . i do love this movie because it bring back one of the happy moment of my childhood . but it be not all that good of a movie in quality term . basically gung ho transitted to become a romance novel for child . should people watch it . of course . i be not say to stay away . realistically however . the plot be simple . the character shallow . they be shoal . you can love a bad movie .