
The lure of gold brings a number of people to the railroad watering-stop of Liberty, Texas. First to arrive is a trio of aging Union army veterans: Lane (John Wayne), Jesse (Ben Johnson) and Grady (Rod Taylor.) Together, with drifters Ben (Bobby Vinton), Sal (Jerry Gatlin) and Calhoun (Christopher George), they plan to accompany Mrs. Lowe (Ann-Marget), a train robber's widow, to the site where her husband had hidden a gold shipment. Lane observes that his band of adventurers ... (Full plot summary below)
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The lure of gold brings a number of people to the railroad watering-stop of Liberty, Texas. First to arrive is a trio of aging Union army veterans: Lane (John Wayne), Jesse (Ben Johnson) and Grady (Rod Taylor.) Together, with drifters Ben (Bobby Vinton), Sal (Jerry Gatlin) and Calhoun (Christopher George), they plan to accompany Mrs. Lowe (Ann-Marget), a train robber's widow, to the site where her husband had hidden a gold shipment. Lane observes that his band of adventurers will be hotly pursued by the deceased robber's gang members along with "every two-bit gunman in the territory." As the company crosses the Texas border and Rio Grande River in Mexico, just ahead of of a band of pursuers, a lone, well-dressed, cigar-smoking stranger keeps a careful eye on both groups.
Leave your thoughts about The Train Robbers.
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyOne of John Wayne's last films (he died in 1979) is also one of his weakest, a tired and tiresome Western for which he is way too old. |
| Portland OregonianTed MaharAs an exercise in pleasantness, The Train Robbers is an interesting addition to the late history of the traditional unpretentious Western. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertKennedy goes for silhouettes and, as I’ve mentioned, for the kind of carefully casual arrangements of figures we find in samurai films - the Japanese Western. The result is a movie that isolates the John Wayne mystique and surrounds it with the necessary simplicity and directness. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThis easy to take Western was hard for me to take. |
| Cleveland PressTony MastroianniThe picture has a red herring or two and ends with the classic double cross. It's fun and as Westerns go rather pleasant and entertaining. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawHow can the author of this piece of shit be the same guy who wrote Seven Men From Now and Comanche Station? |
| User ReviewJoe Eit's the duke, what more is tere to say.. |
| User ReviewDaniel Mgreat film. not as good as a lot of his films but, still nonetheless a great movie. |
| User ReviewMichael VBurt Kennedy's Howard Hawks homage works on many levels. Straight up western. Quest movie. Surprisingly wistful sexual tension. Great cinematography by William H. Clothier. A rousing musical score by Dominic Frontiere that even if we are made to wait for 15 minutes before it start never leaves our head thereafter. The best dialogue Burt Kennedy gave us since Comanche Station. Throw in the twist ending and I can't think of a better way to spend 90 minutes. |
| User ReviewBill GOutstanding movie John Wayne is my family favorite actor |