Unusual and slightly above average western about three treasure-seekers in Mexico, (Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark and Cameron Mitchell). Who are hired by American woman Susan Hayward to rescue her husband who is trapped in a gold mine in Apache territory. Even if none of the actors are at their best here, director Henry Hathaway keeps things ticking along nicely and it's certainly a handsome looking picture, shot in Cinemascope by Milton Krasner and Jorge Stahl Jr. And with a good Bernard Herrmann score. Plot-wise it takes a little while to get going and if the title "Garden of Evil" hints at perhaps something a little more risque than what's delivered it's good matinee fare nevertheless and in the Hathaway canon is certainly undervalued.
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