{"id":38970,"date":"2013-11-29T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=38970"},"modified":"2014-04-03T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:58:10","slug":"guest-review-wyoming-renegades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=38970","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming Renegades (1954): Western Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WyomingWyoming Renegades<\/a> (1954) is an underdeveloped Columbia Western with Phil Carey<\/a> as a former outlaw trying to go straight.<\/p>\n

Carey plays Brady Sutton, who has served three years in prison and returned to his hometown, where he intends to reopen the family blacksmith business. Nancy (Martha Hyer<\/a>) has been waiting to marry Brady and believes in him, but he faces a hostile reception from most of the townsfolk, except for newcomer Charlie Veer (Douglas Kennedy), who takes a gamble on Brady and invests in his business.<\/p>\n

At first things go well, but Brady’s old confederates Butch Cassidy (Gene Evans<\/a>) and the Sundance Kid (William Bishop<\/a>) have a plan to rob the town bank, and when Brady unsuccessfully tries to thwart it he’s accused of having returned to his old ways. Brady has to go on the run to survive an angry mob, accompanied by the loyal Charlie. It looks like Brady will fall in with the old gang again for real…or will he?<\/p>\n

I like a short Western, but at 73 minutes this is just a bare-bones storyline without a great deal of backstory or character development; in fact, the movie spends way too much time on the outlaws, when it would be much more interesting to learn more about Brady, Nancy, and Charlie. The story transitions are somewhat abrupt, moved along by Butch and Sundance having the almost superhuman ability to be in the right place at the right time in order to learn critical info.<\/p>\n

\"Wyoming<\/a>Carey is an appealing Western lead, but the movie is almost stolen from him by Douglas Kennedy, a character actor with nearly 200 credits to his name who often played a villain in ’50s Westerns. Kennedy has a real chance to shine in this film as the friendly, morally ambiguous Charlie, who may not be quite as he seems. It’s a really nice role, and Kennedy makes the most of it.\u00a0Evans, on the other hand, is quite unpleasant as Butch Cassidy, which may be appropriate for an outlaw but means he’s not much fun to watch on screen for extended periods. Bishop is wasted as the Sundance Kid, while future TV mogul Aaron Spelling is creepily memorable as one of the outlaw gang.<\/p>\n

Martha Hyer is saddled with a really bad platinum blonde hairstyle — maybe a wig? — but she and the other women of the town have a unique role to play in the film’s final shootout, a nice touch which gives the film a little something out of the ordinary.\u00a0\u00a0There are a number of welcome faces in the supporting cast, including Roy Roberts, Don Beddoe, Pat O’Malley, Harry Harvey, Robert Foulk, and one of my favorites, Arthur Space.<\/p>\n

This film was directed by Fred F. Sears, with a story and screenplay by David Lang. It was shot in Technicolor by Lester White.<\/p>\n

Laura G. is a proofreader and homeschooling parent who is a lifelong film enthusiast.\u00a0 Laura\u2019s thoughts on classic films, Disney, and other topics can be found at\u00a0Laura\u2019s Miscellaneous Musings<\/a>, established in 2005.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Newman and Robert Redford weren’t the first to play Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the movies. Laura G look at 1954’s Wyoming Renegades, starring Phil Carey as an ex-partner of the infamous duo who tries to reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9695,"featured_media":38981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1358,1368],"coauthors":[5335],"class_list":["post-38970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-articles","tag-1950s-movies","tag-western-movies"],"yoast_head":"\nWyoming Renegades (1954): Western Movie Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wyoming Renegades (1954) classic Western movie starring Phil Carey and Gene Evans is reviewed. 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