A Mexican American western directed by Elliott Nugent, starring Mickey Rooney.
The younger of 2 brothers searches for his elder sibling in Mexico, where he supposedly owns a silver mine. Come to find out, the older brother is an outlaw. A ranger teams up with the younger brother to capture the older without being killed by him and save the woman the outlaw has selected to marry.
The only thing that I agree with is the younger brother complaining about having bad luck with women and always getting the big ones. He refers to them as whales and I can sympathize. The rest of the movie sucked pretty bad. Mickey Rooney is too much of a pansy to be in a western and the plot wasn't all that great. What it really lacked was style. What I mean by this is that you could turn the film on at any point in it's duration and even if you've seen it, not be able to identify it. I'm rating this bad, but no hard feelings. It's just another bit of the rough that I have to pass in my search for diamonds.
A musical fantasy directed by Don Chaffey and Don Bluth, produced by the Walt Disney corporation, starring Mickey Rooney.
A young boy who is owned by abusive hillbillies has a dragon. The dragon helps the boy to escape from those yokels into the care of an alcoholic lighthouse keeper and his widowed daughter. While this is going on, a traveling salesman/swindler and his assistant are trying to get the dragon for their own personal gain.
This is a really crappy Disney musical, so why did I watch it? One reason: animated dragon. The plot and characters are alright, but obscured by the hokey musical numbers. I like how almost all of the characters have major flaws like getting stumbling and slurring drunk or being money grubbing bastards. I noticed that the hillbillies are always filthy and the events in their scenes only make them dirtier. I'm rating this o.k. because for a shit film, it's almost cool. There is also some sentimental value involved, as I remember watching this when I was very young.
