THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS
DIRECTED BY BURT KENNEDY
MUSIC BY WILLIAM LAVA
ROBERT GOLDSTEIN PRODUCTIONS
RONDEN PRODUCTIONS
WARNER BROTHERS/SEVEN ARTS
INFORMATION FROM IMDb
Plot Summary
Marshal Flagg, an aging lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis,
the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery.
Riding out to hunt down McKaye, Flagg is captured by McKaye's gang and finds out that McKaye
is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an aging relic by the new leader,
a youngster named Waco.
Waco orders Mackaye to shoot Flagg, and when Mackaye refuses Waco abandons both of them.
Flagg then takes Mackaye back to town only to find out that he has been "retired",
and when he sees how clueless and incompetent the new marshal and the city fathers are,
he persuades Mackaye that it is up to the two of them to stop Waco and his gang from ravaging the town.
Written by frankfob2
Cast
Robert Mitchum ... Flagg
George Kennedy ... McKay
Martin Balsam ... Mayor Wilker
David Carradine ... Waco
Tina Louise ... Carmel
Douglas Fowley ... Grundy (as Douglas V. Fowley)
Lois Nettleton ... Mary
John Davis Chandler ... Deuce
John Carradine ... Ticker
Marie Windsor ... Polly
Dick Peabody ... Boyle
Kathleen Freeman ... Mrs. Stone - Mother
Jimmy Murphy ... Buckshot
Garrett Lewis ... Hawkins
Bobby Riha ... Billy
Jackie Joseph ... Doris
Howard Storm ... Harry
George Dunn ... Engineer #1
Nick Dennis ... Engineer #2
Phil Vandervort ... Simms
and many more...
Directed
Burt Kennedy
Writing Credits
Ronald M. Cohen ... (written by)
Dennis Shryack ... (written by)
Produced
Ronald M. Cohen ... producer
Robert Goldstein ... executive producer
Stan Jolley ... associate producer
Dennis Shryack ... producer
Music
William Lava
Cinematography
Harry Stradling Jr.
Trivia
Robert Mitchum admitted he regretted making this film.
The red car, which gets cut in half by a train, is one of the
"Leslie Specials" from The Great Race (1965).
George Kennedy plays a character named McKay.
He would later play a character called Carter McKay on the TV series Dallas (1978).
This was originally going to be a John Wayne vehicle.
Director Trademark
Burt Kennedy: ["Fight!"] At the beginning of the fight scene, someone
(in this case, an uncredited Richard Farnsworth) looks directly at the camera and yells, "Fight!"
Goofs
Continuity
The train worker carrying the shotgun fires that shotgun at least ten times
during scene in the tunnel where everything goes black.
The sound effect for the shotgun had been established in previous scenes.
The shots were far to close together to allow for any reloading;
and since he was carrying a double barrel shotgun that many shots would have not been possible.
When Flagg and McKay are running along the roof of the train,
the view from inside the train shows their shadows on the cliff wall
beside the tracks level with their actual position on the roof,
as though the sun were nearly on the horizon throwing their shadow straight onto the cliff wall
directly behind them.
But when the view switches to overhead on top of the train,
their shadows are directly below them as though the sun were directly overhead.
This same pattern is repeated several times, camera overhead showing their shadow directly below them,
then inside showing their shadows on the cliff wall out to the side.
When Martin Balsam is getting dressed after being interrupted
with his dalliance with Tina Louise, his collar is unbuttoned and vertical.
When he is wearing his dressing gown, the collar is covered by the gown.
However when he steps outside the collar is visible again.
Revealing mistakes
When the car is left on the tracks, and the train hits it and breaks it apart, #
as it flies apart it is clearly just painted wooden sections fastened together on a frame to look like a car.
There is no engine or drive train or interior,
no seats or glass, and the wooden pieces can clearly be seen.
Filming Locations
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, Chama, New Mexico, USA
New Mexico, USA
Silverton, Colorado, USA
Janss Conejo Ranch, Thousand Oaks, California, USA
Laramie Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
