Jory

Robby Benton had the looks to become a star and in this his first outing he is lovingly filmed, especially facial closeups, from beginning to end.

That is about the most consistent aspect about this B Western in color. Other than that, it requires considerable suspension of disbelief as this 15 year old called Jory is given two guns as if they grew on trees, ices three grown men, and goes on cattle drives but is too shy to get close to a girl his age who dives naked into the water and who he clearly fancies.

Rather mixed up kid going through the pangs of his age, but lightning fast and accurate with the Colt .45s, even though he had never taken a shot at anything before.

Shoddy photography interspersed with great sequence of a herd of wild horses running. Stodgy script often makes no sense, especially when the girl's father decides to entrust her safety to 15 year old Jory while a formidably armed and seconded enemy tries to take over his land and cattle.

Plenty of killing. Main saving graces: superb performance from John Marley as the cattle drive's wise leading elder and great song at the end by Curtis Young.