Lancaster and Davis work particularly well together, ditto Savalas and Winters. There are talky periods of slow pace, but they are terminated before undue damage has been done.

An amiable enough liberal comedy Western, with colour-coded cultural conflict worked through an ironic circular plot.

While the individual incidents are familiar, they are played with gusto by Lancaster and Davis.

Navigating the movie's period attitude is relatively easy, but finding its sense of humor takes some work.