Genre:
Western
Directed
by: Mack V. Wright
Cast:
John Wayne, Phyllis Fraser
Running
time: 54 minutes
Just as the telegraph is about to replace the
Pony Express, partners John Blair and Larry Adams are looking for a new
business venture in the field of stagecoaches. In Buchanan City, a local businessman
offers to sell them a franchise of his own stagecoach line out of Crescent
City, a town that is supposedly booming. Blair and Adams take the deal, but,
upon arrival in Crescent City, they realize that it is a ghost town inhabited
by two men. Hoping to salvage their investment and make Crescent City viable
once again, the Blair enters a stagecoach race to win a government contract for
the right to deliver the mail in the area.
Winds of the Wasteland offers a whole lot of
very bad acting. John Wayne, still quite young then, is OK, but the supporting
cast is absolutely atrocious. And, the story is filled with plotholes that took
me right out of the film almost from the get-go. Thankfully, this little
western was kept short.
Rating:
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