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Springfield Rifle (1952)

In the same year Gary Cooper starred in High Noon (1952) he also stared in this American Civil War Western. A Union Major is kicked out of the army and joins a gang that is stealing horses from the Union to sell to the South.

You can see the plot of this film coming a mile off and there are no surprises along the way as our hero isn't really a coward but infiltrating the bad guys to take them down, shocker. Given the short run time of the film it still manages to run really slowly with a lot of time taken up with going back and forth between the two sides. The locations used are nice enough but other than that it is hard to find a lot to praise in this film.

2/5 a weak and unoriginal effort.