Reviews — Ten Wanted Men
Audience write-ups from TMDB
CinemaSerf
Randolph Scott struggles to portray hardened characters, seeming consistently like someone inherently good and honorable. However, this movie stands out as one of his stronger performances, featuring him as a rancher ("Stewart") intervening to shield "Corrine" (Jocelyn Brando) from her unpleasant guardian, "Campbell" (Richard Boone). Annoyed by her departure, Campbell employs "Scavo" (Leo Gordon) and a group of bandi…
Wuchak
It has some things going for it, but it’s not among Scott's stronger Westerns. When a young woman under the thumb of a threatening rancher in Arizona (Richard Boone) escapes to the property of a competing cattleman (Randolph Scott), he employs ten questionable gunmen to resolve matters. Lee Van Cleef appears alongside Leo Gordon, who portrays one of the antagonists, while a younger Dennis Weaver assumes the role o…
John Chard
The film doesn’t quite manage to spark any excitement. Ten Wanted Men, a Western from Scott-Brown, suggests something more thrilling in its name than what the movie actually delivers. H. Bruce Humberstone directed, with a script by Kenneth Gamet (adapting a story by Irving Ravetch), and it was shot in Technicolor in Old Tuscon; however, the final product feels flat and suffers from structural problems and weak dir…

