VERA CRUZ (1954) *1/2 They're trying to do what Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid would do successfully a few years later. The problem is that Gary Cooper can maintain a low-powered John Wayne thing when he's walking around, but loses even that entirely when he tries to talk. This script don't help none. Burt Lancaster is primarily remarkable for his tan and teeth as the smiley good-time sidekick. Cesar Romeo is kind of entertaining as the Mexican ally of the King of Spain called "alligator teeth," but he was better in the "Zorro" tv series. Some of the problem is that everything gets distracted by these entirely uninteresting females, but mostly it's the uninteresting males. Ernest Borgnine is in it. There's no revolutionary fervor among the Juarista revolutionaries, it's more like an under-dressed Democratic convention with less food. At least the Democrats would have been excited about the $3 million bucks.
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