Ten Days to Tulara

This second feature is neither as good nor as awful as other reviewers might have you believe. Sterling Hayden is blackmailed into taking part in a hold up south of the border and then has to go on the run. It has some good photography and decent direction by old hand Henry Hathaway to keep things moving along. But co-star Rudolfo Hoyos steals every scene he is in and the fact that a lot of his and Hayden's conversations take place in alternating takes makes me think that either the two didn't get along or that Hayden really didn't want to be there -- quite probably the latter.

It's hard to make a movie when the star wants to be several thousand miles away on his boat, but this one frequently works, despite an awful script with idiotic dialogue, mostly due to some lovely photography by cinematographer Alex Phillips, who started off in the US during the silent era and then spent the next thirty years shooting in Mexico for the local industry. But really, if Hayden really had such contempt for his craft -- and he did -- he should have tried working for a living.