Movie - the Over-the-hill Gang Rides Again

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Once more
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Written by	Richard Carr
Directed by	George McCowan
Starring	Walter Brennan Fred Astaire Edgar Buchanan Andy Devine Chill Wills Lana Wood
Music past	David Raksin
Country of origin	US
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Shelley Hull
Cinematography	Fleet Southcott
Editor	Richard West. Farrell
Running time	75 minutes
Product visitor	Thomas-Spelling Productions
Benefactor	ABC
Release
Original release	November 17, 1970 (1970-11-17)
Chronology
Preceded past	The Over-the-Loma Gang

The Over-the-Colina Gang Rides Again starring Walter Brennan and Fred Astaire is a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week sequel to the Western comedy The Over-the-Colina Gang. The supporting cast includes Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, Arctic Wills, Lana Forest, and Burt Mustin (all of whom, except Wood, were in The Over-the-Loma Gang). Like the 1969 original, the sequel involves a group of crumbling Texas Rangers and was written by Richard Carr and directed by George McCowan.

Pat O'Brien had played the second lead in the first moving-picture show, simply his graphic symbol was left out of the sequel and he was effectively replaced by Astaire, who was not in the original pic.^[i]

Richard Widmark played O'Brien'southward grapheme in a quasi-remake ii decades later entitled Once Upon a Texas Train, in which the Over-the-Hill Gang, with an entirely new bandage including Stuart Whitman, played supporting roles to Willie Nelson's railroad train robber.

This was the terminal picture show for three-time winner University Award-winner Walter Brennan.

Cast [edit]

• Walter Brennan as Nash Crawford
• Fred Astaire every bit the Baltimore Child
• Edgar Buchanan as Jason Fitch
• Andy Devine as Amos Polk
• Chill Wills equally Gentleman George Asque
• Paul Richards as Sam Braham
• Lana Wood as Katie Flavin
• Parley Baer every bit Waco Mayor
• Walter Burke as Mac a.thousand.a. Tom (Waco Stableman)
• Lillian Bronson equally Mrs. Louise White potato
• Jonathan Hole every bit Parson
• Burt Mustin as Best Man
• Don Wilbanks as Bar X Cowboy
• Pepper Martin as Drifter
• Eddie Quillan as Silver Dollar Bartender (uncredited)

Plot [edit]

Old and retired Sergeant Nash Crawford (Brennan), formerly of the Texas Rangers, enters a saloon where his former partner, Gentleman George Asque (Wills), plays poker with a human and beats him ten times in a row. The man calls George a cheater and prepares to draw his gun, simply Nash saves his comrade by calling him "Wyatt," making the stranger mistakenly assume he is Wyatt Earp.

The two leave the saloon. Nash gives George a telegram which says that they should go to Waco because former partner the renowned Baltimore Kid (Astaire) is in trouble. It is signed "Friend."

Jason Fitch (Buchanan) is marrying Louise Potato (Bronson). George and Nash appear on the eve of the wedding ceremony to take Jason with them to Waco; they convince him to come by shouting the Ranger code "Brazos!" Jason promises Louise that he volition return and leaves with his friends.

In Waco, they find out that "Friend" was Amos Polk, a old outlaw, now a newspaper man. Polk takes them to the Baltimore Kid's crudely marked grave, telling them the Kid had been critically wounded after a deadly robbery at the Wells Fargo office and was then lynched by the townspeople. At commencement it is unclear why Polk chosen them, but when he shows them the Kid'southward wallet, they read a note that the Kid wrote, summoning his comrades when he dies. The four sorry friends go to the saloon to commiserate, where they meet a drunk who looks very much like the Baltimore Kid, and is indeed him. They have him dorsum to the newspaper part, and convince Polk to publish that the real Baltimore Kid is alive and well and not an armed robber.

The comrades make clean up the Child and provide him with some new some clothes and a new gun. His gravestone is removed, and he becomes the Waco metropolis marshal; the quondam Rangers are now his deputies.

Now it is clear to everyone that the bandit who killed the previous marshal and his deputies was only posing equally the Kid. The actual gang returns to Waco to call up their hidden Wells Fargo contraband and to kill the real Baltimore Kid. A gunfight in the streets of Waco ensues and the Rangers win confronting the outlaws, merely the Kid is shot dead. The citizens of Waco bury the Kid again, this time with honors. The old Rangers leave, but, at the end of the town, the Baltimore Kid is waiting, very much alive, now able to atomic number 82 a life of peace and quiet. All of them become with Jason Fitch, who however has his hymeneals to nourish.

Reception [edit]

The Los Angeles Times called information technology "very pallid and light-headed".^[2]

References [edit]

1. ^ "For Charter Sign Hung on Bunny Jet" Los Angeles Times, thirty Apr 1970: pg. 13.
2. ^ "NBC May Hasten Moving picture Programming" Smith, Cecil. Los Angeles Times 23 Nov. 1970: pg. 23.

External links [edit]

• The Over-the-Loma Gang Rides Again at IMDb
• The Over-the-Colina Gang Rides Again is available for gratuitous download at the Net Archive
• WFMO.EU

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