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If you liked Two Mules for Sister Sara, check out Madron. Unfortunately for Richard Boone and Leslie Caron, their version of "the cowboy and the nun" was also released in 1970 - and no one remembers it. The main difference between the two is that Madron is a drama. Perhaps audiences in 1970 only wanted a cutesy story.

I'm sure Richard loved making this movie. He always had to play villains, but in this one, not only did he get to play the lead, he was also the title character! It's practically a two-person story, and even though he's less admirable than his costar, he's hardly a bad guy. Leslie just plays a nun, so anyone's going to look immoral compared to her. He's a tough gunslinger who comes across the remains of a wagon train after an Indian attack. Leslie is the sole survivor, and she tags along with him for safety. They hate each other at first, since they both represent the opposite of what each admires - but as the story progresses, they learn to like each other. I'd definitely recommend this one if you want to see the softer side of Richard. Next up, check out his turn playing a psychiatrist in Lizzie!

I am surprised that the other users did not mention the comparison between this film and Don Siegel's TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARAH, two different movies though, but in the new Italian western wave however. I prefer this one, despite the fact it is less good, but so downbeat, very gloomy with a very good Dick Boone's performance. I love this movie.

Richard Boone and Leslie Caron were great actors in near past and said that the bad movie's copy allowed to me make me extremely unpleasant to wrote something, firstly it was an used VHS transfer into DVD-R and worst dubbed in spanish, under such conditions is hard to make a suitable review, in addition about the storyline, l can write unreserved as it was shooting in Israel's desert and Hollywood, so stays a question that doesn't have an propper answer, why they didn't shooting in desert nearby of Hollywood, will be more easy and for economics reason more relevant, so l will pray so hard in near future to see this interesting picture in a full restoration, and try make a reappraise that l've been write today!!!

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First watch: 2011 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD-R / Rating: 5.5

The movie is enthralling, it has deepness, it is the hard core gunfighter who has lost all hope on mankind, including himself, and trapped by circumstances in a desert with a beautiful pure woman...and slowly regains hope in mankind, in himself, and ultimately falls in love...his last love...and sacrifices his life so that she may live...all enshrined in the nostalgic spell of the award winning score...a beautiful movie...

I majored in film in college which means I have watched a lot of movies ... all types of movies made by all types of people in all types of places. I have a very open mind towards movies. But Madron left me speechless. Madron could possibly be the worst film I have ever seen, and I have seen some really bad stuff. The best way I can describe Madron is that it's like a 70's porn film, but without the porn. It's poorly constructed, numbingly boring, and crude. Each scene seems like a repeat of the last. Sometimes I like bad movies, because they are so bad they are funny. Madron is not funny, it's sad. The talent has been in other good films though ... so I'm going to have to blame this feature-length mistake on the director and other behind the scenes folks.

I would say the one redeeming characteristic of Madron it is that this film has made me appreciate good movies that I had started to take for granted.