TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

dougdoepke No need to recap the plot. Though conventional in most respects, this western does have some imaginative wrinkles. The Victor Jory character (Jeff) is a real novelty for the western format. Unlike most oaters, we can't tell where his loyalties lie. His intentions remain something of an enigma, which adds greatly to the plot since we can't be sure what he'll do next. With his unusual looks, Jory is perfectly cast. Then there's the super slick Albert Dekker who uses his extraordinary business guile instead of a six-gun to take over the town. All in all, it's a fine cast of colorful movie veterans, especially the froggish Eugene Palette.I get the feeling someone in production was aiming for an epic scale western. Consider features like the host of extras, the big shootouts, the massive barroom free-for-all, the cattle stampede that's not all stock shots, along with the well-mounted musical numbers. The trouble is they spent all their money on big events but filmed in the very un-epic LA area scrublands, which gives the visuals a flat, pedestrian appearance. The story may be grandly conceived but the canvas is ordinary, at best. All in all, it's an interesting, slightly offbeat western.

jetan This probably doesn't deserve the "B Movie" sobriquet. The production values are pretty high and it is quite heavy on the movie stars. This looks to me like it would have taken the A spot on a bill. Dix is good but Victor Jory nearly steals the show. The high point is likely one of the most over-the-top barroom brawls I've ever seen on celluloid. The script is also fine, although nothing too original. The low point in the movie....aside from a really unfortunate racial caricature.... is probably represented by a really ghastly World War II style showgirl routine based around "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". All in all, a satisfying show.

kidboots Richard Dix was such a versatile actor and while he could play anything (he even started a series based on "The Whistler" a few years before he died) I think it was Westerns that he was best suited to. "The Kansan" was his last western and the supporting cast reads like a Hollywood Who's Who - Albert Dekker, Eugene Palette, Victor Jory, Robert Armstrong, Willie Best. It might not be from a big studio but the cast is tops!!!John Bonneville wakes up in hospital, not knowing what has happened to him. He has been made Marshall because he stopped the James Gang from robbing the town bank. He was just passing through and is not too keen on being made a Marshall. Most of the town are eager for him to have a go, especially Eleanor (Jane Wyatt, looking very fetching) who not only nurses him in hospital but also runs the town hotel.Sheriff Steve Barat (Albert Dekker from "Dr. Cyclops") has bought up a lot of land and is charging huge fees for people wanting to use the roads. When Bonneville's old friend, Tom Waggoner (Eugene Palette) asks him to help get his cattle across, John realises the Sheriff isn't as honest as he thought. He also realises why he was made a Marshall - so he could be just a pawn in the Marshall's scheme. There is a fight in the saloon that is action packed and very realistic. When the two bandits who caused the fight, are released from jail on bail, Waggoner is killed. The Sheriff, who put up the bail plans to ship the bail money to Kansas, with his brother's help. Victor Jory plays Jeff and even though he is at first eager to help his brother (he has gambling debts) he ends up on the right side of the law. His death saves the town.Robert Armstrong plays Malachy a bandit who helps John and Willie Best plays "Bones" in yet another humiliating depiction of a black man.Recommended.

Mike-764 In Broken Lance, Kansas, John Bonniwell averts the Jesse James gang from holding up the town bank, but is severely wounded in the process. When he awakes in the hospital, he finds that he has been elected town marshall, with high recommendations from the bank owner and leading citizen, Steve Barat. Bonniwell accepts the job (especially after getting an eyeful of the hotel owner Eleanor Sager) even though he knows that he was only appointed to become a pawn in Barat's scheme to bleed Broken Lance, and the Kansas, dry. Bonniwell's position is put to the test when Barat sues Bonniwell's friend Waggoner for running his cattle without paying the $1 a head toll enforced by Barat. When he sees that Bonniwell isn't going to be controlled so easily, Barat has Bonniwell's enemies go after him followed by an attempt by Barat's gambling brother, Jeff (who seems to be playing both sides of the standoff, while in love with Eleanor). Bonniwell then starts to rid Broken Lance of Barat's influence without losing his life, or anyone else's, in the process. Very good western with an excellent script, direction, characterization, and performances by everyone. Dix is right at home as Bonniwell, even though he seems awkward at times. Jory gives one of his best performances as Jeff, and his characterization is very surprising and different from others in the genre. The movie also contains one of the biggest barroom free for alls in any western, with everyone getting into the fracas. Only flaw was the climax was not as action packed as other sequences in the movie, but still a winner all the way. Rating, based on B westerns (this may count as a B+ however), 9.