THE GREAT SCOUT AND CATHOUSE THURSDAY
D: Don Taylor (1976) ¢ ¢
Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Kay Lenz,
Strother Martin, Elizabeth Ashley, Sylvia Miles
A slapstick western about a retired cavalry scout, a half-breed Indian, their con-man sidekick and a skinny young hooker who team up to get even with a slick crook during the presidential campaign of 1908. A cast like that isn't hard to watch, but the material they've got to work with doesn't amount to much. Your only chance to see Oliver Reed play an Indian with gonorrhea, which also tells you something about the level of comic inspiration the movie's operating on.
