Couple of Pairs

I think I queued up Four for Texas because I wanted to see an Sinatra movie. It's not that I like Sinatra, but he does seem to be in a lot of good movies. Kind of like Bing Crosby - I like Bing Crosby movies, I just don't like Bing Crosby.

When I realized that Anita Ekburg and Ursula Andress were in it (the titular four for Texas), I remembered why I had queued it up. I fell in love with Ekberg in La Dolce Vita. In Intervista, we get to see her a little older, a lot bigger, a beautiful monster and still glorious. She wasn't the talent that Ursula Andress was, but she's just as easy on the eyes.

But this movie is more about Sinatra and Dino as gamblers and gunmen in and around Galveston, fighting over ... some kind of MacGuffin. That part kind of wore me out. Can we see more of Anita and Ursula now?

Nice cameos by Grady Sutton (Ogg Oggilby, the jabbernowl mooncalf from the Bank Dick), Fritz Feld, Mike Mazurki, Jack Elam and the Three Stooges. It isn't enough.

In conclusion, this movie is way too long at 2 hours, 4 minutes. But at least nobody sings.