Fresh
An excellent, literate action drama probing the diverse motivations of participants in an endurance horse race.
Variety Staff, Variety
Overview
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
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71%
Tomatometer
Rotten
In spite of all the care, the money and the hardships that apparently went into its production, the movie looks prefabricated, like something assembled from other people's earlier, better inspirations.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
A finely crafted, epic Western about a cross-country horseback endurance race.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Any random thought ever committed to paper about the intrinsic 'messages' of the Western genre here turns up as a line of speechifying dialogue: the result is a folly stultified by its own seriousness.
Time Out
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