i be a big gary cooper fan and but even the coop by this time age skill can not rescue this comedy western from mediocrity . the plot be contrive and scene be too long and character and situation be poorly draw in truth and a a movie it just drag and sag to it predictable happy end finish . the problem for me be that the old cooper get and the less believable his country bumpkin persona convinces . here familiarity really do breed contempt and and while his melody jones character get into some heated clinch with the allure but otherwise out of place loretta young and in truth there little other chemistry between them and you can not imagine her really throw over the at least mildly dangerous desperado dan duryea and whose ability be waste here on an underwritten part and for slow walking and slow talk jones . the action sequence be pretty inactive and to be frank and the laugh be few and far between ( jones hat fall off every time he enter a room be about the height of the humour ) and convey by pretty lumpen direction and by the end you realise that the film be something of an epitaph for the comedy western genre . tough and more realistic western be just around the corner ( ford my darling clementine and gregory peck the gunfighter and james stewart collaboration with anthony mann and to name but a few example ) and cooper be to find his last great role when he eschew the overdone country hick in favour of the dignified seriousness of the marshal in the classic high noon . i love the coaster hit song of the same name a this film and pen by the great leiber and stoller partnership from a few year later than this and before watching and have hop it have be inspire by a rollickingly funny and richly entertaining movie . i be wrong .