randolph scott be a former confederate soldier and joan bennett play a woman who refuse to admit when the civil war be over in james hogan cattle rustle epic and which look and feel in retrospect a lot like a b version of howard hawk red river . there a general lack of ambition here and the movie doesn not add up to much and just a formula picture that pretend to be somewhat more important than a singing cowboy picture . anytime randolph scott be wear more makeup in the movie than joan bennett and that a sign of trouble right there . scott annoy me to no end in this movie and and it hard to believe he the same man who become such a convincing western star in the 50 and 60 . the director be partly to blame and because he always have scott do these clownish double take to the camera that really do not suit him . you shouldn not ask actor to do thing that they really can not do . joan bennett be mis cast because she feel too contemporary . walter brennan basically steal the movie and make a couple good scene out of it . i wouldn not be surprise if hawk do see the movie and figure he could do it well . the following year after this film and brennan make a memorable appearance in fritz lang fury and and shortly after that he begin his memorable run of character performance for hawk . so this film might if anything be somewhat important in term of brennan filmography and since he basically prove here that he even well than gabby hayes . may robson be also very amuse a granna and the ancient frontier woman who would not be leave behind and who nurse a maternal affection for the age brennan character . robert cummings play the rival love interest for joan bennett and a smarmy confederate dead ender who dream of lead rebel excursion from mexico to reclaim texas . b western regular raymond hatton also put in a patented support performance a some kind of wilderness man to round up the rather generic but pleasant nature of the cast and film generally . not much else to say here . hogan direction be pedestrian and the story be somewhat interesting but very contrived . for instance and when the uber annoying regional bureaucrat ( robert barrat ) be murder rather obviously in the midst of a fray by scott trapping buddy ( hatton ) and the military officer in charge ( harvey stephen ) barely bother to investigate and suddenly switch plan and agree to help the rancher . it all tie up in such a way a to soothe the frayed nerve between the southerner and the northerner and a if this be some piece of propaganda delay by some 60 odd year . there a couple shoot out against indian but nothing really invest with any drama or meaning . violence in this movie be simply action and and not very good action . basically the movie would suffice for saturday morning but it seem to want to be at least a bit more than that and and fails .