actor producer randolph scott and writer producer harry joe brown collaborate on a number of good western . unfortunately and ten want men be not one of them . you know youre in trouble when the title of the movie make no sense . richard boone have a number of gunman work for him and but it never apparent any of them be want for anything and though they should be . warn represent possible spoilersthe movie open with scott have engineer a bogus stagecoach robbery and intend a a practical joke . yet scott have no way of know whether anyone would be hurt . it be a stupid and dangerous thing to do while certainly not the best way to introduce your ` hero . richard boone kill andy clyde in cold blood and use his gunman to lie for him . yet and there be not even a hearing while and and wouldn not someone have know clyde have the money to pay his debt to boone . skip homey and scott ranch foreman see boone men rustle scott cattle . yet and when boone say scott have no witness and scott doesn not challenge him . homier kill denver pyle in self defense and use leo gordon gun . even though gordon and boone other men be clearly unreliable witness and homey be know not to carry a gun and the sheriff arrest homey . the editing in ten want men be frequently choppy and never more so than the climactic fight between scott and leo gordon . scott and gordon look a if they be jump around the screen . dennis weaver be hit by a bullet come through a window . from the trajectory of the hole in the glass and weaver should have be hit in the neck and but weaver character be give the old and reliable shoulder wound . two stunt men drop their horse before scott dynamite explodes . the act range from indifferent to terrible . scott and a almost always and play scott . even the usually reliable richard boone be off his game . randolph scott and richard boone and lee van cleef and leo gordon and denver pyle . this one should have be a classic . instead and it a dog . i give ten want men a ` 4. oh and and match be invent in 1826 .