Sunday, February 19, 2012

1966 - TEXAS ACROSS THE RIVER, dumb


What seems funny when you are 10 or 12 years old isn't actually funny in the bright light of adult reality years later.


Well lets see here, Frenchman Alain Delon plays a Spanish nobleman who is going to marry a southern belle.  Delon accidentally kills her former boyfriend by hilariously head butting him out of a two story window.  Delon on the run,  hooks up with cowboy Dean Martin and charter member of the rat pack Joey Bishop playing an Indian named Kronk.  Bishop is supposed to be playing a funny Indian but he's fairly offensive and his jokes are pretty dumb.


Strictly off of the Universal Studios assembly line.  Directed by some guy named Michael Gordon who did some Doris Day and Rock Hudson comedies.  This film was clearly shot on the back lot and probably in that place called Griffin Park the go to location for westerns since the silent film days.


The film also features an actor named Rosemary Forsyth.  Forsyth was in about every TV show I wasted my time watching which included Mannix, Barnaby Jones, Days of Our Lives, Fantasy Island, T.J, Hooker, the list is endless.

Texas Across the River is pretty bad.  However it does have Dino.

101 minutes

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