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A Texas lawman on the trail of an outlaw must recruit a posse to help bring him back alive. One of those men is the outlaw's father. On the verge of a new century, these veteran lawmen must do their best to fit in to the new world they are policing while also pondering whether they were in the right when they brought law to lawless lands.

Keekee Suki, Carlos Leos, Craig Rainey, Jake Jecmenek, Sergio Cantu, and Christopher Henry in The Oldest Posse (2023)

"Why do I feel I was better off at the end of that rope?"

A mere fourteen viewer ratings for this picture averages out to a &#39;7&#39; at the time I write this. I think that&#39;s a bit generous, although there are a couple of novel touches in the story for a Western. The opening sequence has The Marshal (Sergio Cantu) encountering a drunken outlaw (Joey Venegas Jr.) who in his stupor agrees to a showdown, and gets shot by the lawman who had his gun hand hidden underneath his long coat and behind his back. The only way that could have worked was if Marshal shot through his duster, which might have been necessary in a tight spot, but this was no tight spot. The alcoholic old fool could hardly stand to begin with. The other scene that intrigued me was The Marshal running across a naked outlaw in the middle of the desert wearing nothing but a gun belt and holster placed rather strategically. Following a dispute upon arriving in a small town, Walker (Craig Rainey) got his pants back from the hooker that hooked him, and agreed to join Marshal in a makeshift posse on the trail of an outlaw named Samuel Grant (Michael David Burger Song), who by his looks didn&#39;t seem to be all that mean or ornery, and without the story offering much of a clue why he was wanted, I felt much of the tension the story could have gone for was lost. That&#39;s even after Samuel&#39;s own father, ex-lawman Grant (Jake Jecmenek) was enlisted as part of Marshal&#39;s troop. The first time I ever heard of Bass Reeves was from the &#39;Legends and Lies&#39; TV series in which the lawman&#39;s career suggested he might have inspired the Lone Ranger. I&#39;m not exactly buying that argument, but ever since that program came out, there have been more and more film treatments of the legendary black man hired by the infamous hanging, Judge Isaac Parker, of the old Indian Territory. The character of Reeves is introduced in this story in a rather precarious circumstance - with a noose around his neck and left to hang while teetering on a stool under his feet, compliments of Samuel&#39;s gang. If you look closely though, you&#39;ll note the rope around Reeves&#39; (Carlos Leos) neck was loose enough that he could have wiggled his way out of it while balancing himself on a stool under his feet. When Reeves finally lost his composure and fell, the posse, now grown to five, all shot the hanging rope to free him. Joining the posse, Reeves&#39; first name was never mentioned until late in the picture, confirming for the viewer that this was the noted lawman of the era. So it goes for the rest of the picture until the posse catches up with Samuel in a dusty saloon, with the script forcing Marshal out of the story when he gets shot by one of the outlaws saving Walker in the path of a bullet, leaving the uncommitted posse member to make the difference in a showdown between Grant and his own son. Samuel would have had no problem gunning down his old man but for the intervention of Walker, who&#39;s loyalty to the Marshal had him fulfill an earlier vow that he would do so if Grant found it impossible to shoot his son. Except for a few high spots, much of the movie is a ponderous affair with scenes dragged out longer than necessary. &quot;The Oldest Posse&quot; might have gotten its inspiration from 1969&#39;s &quot;The Over-the-Hill Gang&quot;, which mixed humor amidst the gunfights with great character actors of the time including Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine Jack Elam and Chill Wills, and if that wasn&#39;t enough, it even has Mr. And Mrs. Rick Nelson as central characters in the story.

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