The small church Ted Burke pastors in a small Western town struggles to thrive as all the men gather at Jack Higgins' Mustang Saloon every Sunday. Burke decides to ask Higgins to close his business on Sunday, but Higgins' only concern is to find a baritone to sing in the saloon's quartet, and has his henchies toss Ted out into the street.
Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for weird, low-budget westerns that don't quite know what genre they want to be, you might have a good time here. If you prefer your movies to have a coherent plot or, I don’t know, actual pacing, you should probably skip this one. It feels like a fever dream you’d have af...
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"Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for weird, low-budget westerns that don't quite know what genre they want to be, you might have a good time here. If you prefer your movies to have a coherent plot or, I don’t know, actual pacing, you should probably skip this one. It feels like a fever dream you’d have after eating too much canned beans. The whole premise is just absurd. Ted Burke is a pastor who can't get the boys into the pews because they're all hanging out at the Mustang Saloo..."
Bee Stephens
H.C. Witmer Jr., William Collier Jr., Olga Jamison
United States
1936 · IMDb 6.3
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