Alvarez Kelly

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In this oddball American Civil War western, William Holden plays the eponymous rancher who delivers a herd of cattle to the Union army. Then he's kidnapped by the Confederates, whose colonel, Richard Widmark, wants Holden to steal back the herd in order to feed his own soldiers. At first it's jokey; then Widmark pulls his gun on Holden and things get a tad more serious. Waywardly plotted, the movie is always getting sidetracked, but it's held together by the terrific rivalry and enmity whipped up by Holden and Widmark, two of Hollywood's finest tough guys.