A fine movie, a wonderfully comic tale we didn't quite expect from a director who seems more at home with violence than with humor.

Peckinpah's gentlest, boldest, and perhaps most likable film to date.

Jason Robards shines in one of his most touching and humorous performances, and David Warner is memorable as a sinning preacher man.

Hildy is not the broad stereotype you’d expect her to be either, she is strong willed and independent: she is the closest thing to a Hawksian heroine you’ll find in Peckinpah’s career...