Among British references, "TimeOut Film Guide" critic Paul Taylor advised to "again at the credits before you're tempted: this is the witless remake of Ford's classic, with neither colour nor Cord anything like adequate recompense for Bert Glennon's dusty monochrome or Wayne's early strut as the Ringo Kid" (from 2009 edition). Leslie Halliwell in his "Film Guide" (5th edition, 1985) felt even less charitable, denigrating it as an awful remake of the above; costly but totally spiritless, miscast and uninteresting". Finally, David Shipman in his 1984 "Good Film and Video Guide", does not grant it any stars (Shipman's top number is 4), questioning "[You wonder why they dared – or bothered. In Ford's film (see previous entry), everything works but here almost nothing does". He concludes with "Keenan Wynn plays a bad man waiting for the stage to arrive. His professionalism, and that of Heflin and Crosby, are some consolation".