A Time for Dying

A Time for Dying

15/9/1969 1h 13m 6.4/10

Overview

Passing through a town, a farm boy aspiring to be a bounty hunter rescues a woman who has been tricked into working in its brothel and the two travel towards his father's ranch.

Director

Budd Boetticher

Top Billed Cast

Anne Randall

Anne Randall

Nellie Winters

Audie Murphy

Audie Murphy

Jesse James

Victor Jory

Victor Jory

Judge Roy Bean

Robert Random

Robert Random

Billy Pimple (as Bob Random)

Beatrice Kay

Beatrice Kay

Mamie

Richard Lapp

Cass Bunning

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/3/2023

5/10

This is quite an odd Western, this one - like many made in the late 1960s, it is anticipating the arrival of the railroad and, ultimately, it's own demise... This one is only really notable as the last appearance for Audie Murphy - and appearance is the word - probably no more than 3 minutes of screen time as the legendary Jesse James. The rest of the film really belongs to Victor Jury as the curmudgeonly - and quite ruthless - "Judge Roy Bean" who rules his town with a rod of iron, tempered only by his ability to drink copiously and his fascination with Lily Langtree. Richard Lapp is our rather naive, unassuming hero who has some skill with a gun that he is, thus far, reluctant to use until he is finally provoked... It actually looks quite good, but the story is all rather weak, I found - Lapp and his co-star Anne Randall ("Nellie Winters") are just too nice, their love story too frat-like and many of the action scenes looked more like rodeo staging than anything more authentic.

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