A PLACE CALLED GLORY is a somewhat tame and slow-paced western adventure made as a collaboration between West Germany and Spani. Lex Barker is the dashing hero of the piece, a top gunslinger called in to rescue a town from the machinations of an evil ranch owner and his big gang of gunmen. Barker teams up with a fellow marksman to do the job, but the two are to be pitted against one another in a fateful competition.
This nondescript western has the requisite action scenes but they come few and far between. Barker is on autopilot as is the director, who often lets the pace flag with boring romantic discussions and the like. The worst part of the film is the ending, a complete anticlimax which dashes all of the viewer's best expectations.
This nondescript western has the requisite action scenes but they come few and far between. Barker is on autopilot as is the director, who often lets the pace flag with boring romantic discussions and the like. The worst part of the film is the ending, a complete anticlimax which dashes all of the viewer's best expectations.