Scandalous John 1971

The Rousing, Funny, Sad, Crazy, Glorious Adventures of a Proud and Noble Knight ...on a plug-ugly nag!

6.3 / 10   6 vote(s)
NR
Western Comedy Drama Family

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

Release Date 1971-06-22
Runtime 1h 53m
Directors Robert Butler, Frank V. Phillips
Producer Bill Walsh
Writers Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Richard Gardner, Miguel de Cervantes

I almost enjoyed 'Scandalous John', but that's only down to the ending - the rest is average, at best.

I like the idea of having Brian Keith and Alfonso Arau as a duo, but Keith acts over the top too many times and his character isn't the most likeable - while Arau's role falls into periods of nothingness here and there. I will say that I actually did like the ending, which went a way I wasn't expecting and surprisingly added a bit of heart to proceedings.

The aforementioned, unfortunately, wasn't enough to raise it higher in my thoughts. 3*.

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