blake edward must have have a huge ego after the success of the pink panther . what else possess him to try his hand at a genre that be beyond him in so many way . this film be so self indulgent on behalf of the writer director and you can almost hear him in every scene praise his brilliance . brilliant it ain not . though it look nice and show off some beautiful scenery and this film be slow and overlong and unfocused and mostly pointless and very badly act by everyone but maybe william holden ( still not stellar ) and victor french . ryan oneal be a miserably out of his depth here a edward and a performance that never get off your nerve . holden basically carry him throughout every scene they share . the story . almost non existent . two cow puncher decide on a whim to rob a bank ( just about the dull 25 minute bank robbery in history ) and then go on the trot to mexico pursue by two character play by tom skeritt and joe don baker who really have no character development and have not much to do with anything . along the way be treat to endless tedious amble over hill and dale and slow motion sequence that give you bad antonioni flashback . forget the positive comment on here and this be one of the bad western you will ever see unless you do not mind be bored senseless . edward have make a hash of most film he direct ( sob and victor or victoria exclude ) and but this have to be one of his three bad . ford or peckinpah he isn not . a disaster all the way around .