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I like Westerns featuring trains and I like Jack Elam, but WTHTG became something of a drag, with rather too many views of the train meandering along windy tracks, albeit through very scenic country.

The last twenty minutes or so were a bit of a mess. Given that earlier on the soldiers had to replenish the locomotive's water using a bath and trekking backwards and forwards to the river, it was a little surprising that the locomotive later passed a water tower, when it surely must have needed another top up.

Though the Mexican lieutenant's loyalties were mixed, why did he and his men agree to all the vital dynamite being handed over to the rebels in exchange for five Texas Rangers who shouldn't have been in Mexico?

Wasn't 1895 a little late for the Apaches to be so aggressive? And despite fierce exchanges of fire, including from a small cannon (that was very quickly re-loaded) no human and no horse appeared to have been killed - perhaps because the film was light-hearted, though not the comedy some people have described it as.