Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda play two ageing bronco-busters, making a meagre living breaking wild horses. They fantasize about a wonderful retirement of a island paradise- but their weakness for wild girls and booze leaves them forever with no money in the bank. The hilarity in this film comes in the the form of a stubborn, old roan horse, who causes the two endless frustration trying to break him and finally a back-firing scheme to make some real dough entering the wild horse as a bucking bronco in a rodeo. Ford and Fonda are a pair of perfectly matched characters in this film, with riotous comic antics and witty dialogue, this western is very funny from start to finish. Sue Anne Langdon and Hope Holiday play two floozy type girls the cowboys pick-up along the way. A very risqué scene for the time takes place as Ford and Fonda cleverly hide the girls bare derrières using their cowboy hats as they manoeuvre their way through a crowd. Chills Wills, Edgar Buchanan and Denver Pyle along with other characters help to round out this very amusing western comedy. I really enjoyed this lighthearted film with Glenn Ford's dreamer character and Henry Fonda's character being a little more sensible, but gullible enough to still go along with Glenn Ford's cockeyed ideas.
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