Draw!

Draw!

15/7/1984 1h 38m 6.3/10

Overview

In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was his long time nemesis.

Director

Steven Hilliard Stern

Top Billed Cast

James Coburn

James Coburn

Sam Starret

Alexandra Bastedo

Alexandra Bastedo

Bess

Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas

Harry H. Holland aka Handsome Harry Holland

Jason Michas

Jason Michas

Moses

Graham Jarvis

Graham Jarvis

Deputy Wally Blodgett

Derek McGrath

Derek McGrath

Reggie Bell

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

9/8/2022

6/10

I think perhaps both Kirk Douglas and James Coburn might have wished they had left their guns in their holsters if they ever got round to watching this really mediocre and tired drama that rather sells the genre short. The former is ageing outlaw "Holland" who has just been released from a long term in prison. He heads to a local town where he alights on a crooked poker game. He proceeds to fleece "Bell" (Derek McGrath) but in a contretemps afterwards, kills the sheriff and himself is shot before fleeing into a local hotel. It's the traditional Mexican stand off - and to Mexico, they got to find the solution. An equally aged and past his use-by-date "Starret" (Coburn) who is coaxed from his bottle to come and face down "Holland" on behalf of the petrified townsfolk. It tries it's hand at humour, and there is no getting away from the fact that both actors do exude lots of charisma, but the whole thing just looks cheap and cheerful. The dialogue is pedestrian, and the gunfights look more like circus performances than than anything we would have seen at the "OK Corral". Unlike John Wayne's last effort "The Shootist" (1976) which respected the genre and his part in it's development, this really just provides two screen legends with a poorly thought out, semi-comic, series of escapades that make for a really disappointing made-for-television swan song for both.

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