this movie appear to have be an on the job training exercise for the coppola family . it doesn not seem to know whether to be an a or a b western . i mean and the hero be call hopalong cassidy for god sake . william boyd must be spin in his grave . all the b western cliche be here . the two gun pearly toothed hero in the white hat with the trusty steed ( c amon thunder ) and the all in black beard villain and the heroine in distress and the rancher in trouble and the cowardly sheriff and over the top bad guy etc . the acting and with few exception and be strictly from the yakima canutt school of act . chris lybbert ( who . ) a the hero and louis schweibert ( who . ) a the villain look like they would have be more at home in a 30 poverty row quickie . the addition to the cast of veteran performer martin sheen and robert carradine and clu gulager and will hutchins help a little and but they be not give enough to do to salvage this one . what be the point of the martin sheen or robert carradine framing sequence . be we to believe that the sheen character be a ghost . what be the purpose of the black glove . it just do not make sense . be a great lover of western from all genre and i try hard to find some redeeming quality in this film . the cinematography be quite good and the setting look very authentic . aside from the hero and main villain and the other character look authentic . if the producer be go to resurrect the hopalong cassidy character and they might have give some thought to portray him a he be originally write a grizzled foul mouth ranch hand with a chip on his shoulder and the kind of part lee marvin would have excel in . what else can i say but . on thunder and on big fellow .