The Yellow Rose Of Texas is a 1944 Roy Rogers Western. It's written by Jack Townley and directed by Joseph Kane. Roy is an insurance investigator. Dale Evans is a singer on the Yellow Rose Of Texas showboat. Her father was convicted of robbing some gold and the showboat is coming into the town where the robbery took place. About a week before the story starts Dale's father has bust jail, that's why Roy is there, there's also some federal marshals looking for pop. Dale doesn't believe her father is guilty and it takes a while to convince Roy of that. There's plenty of musical numbers and the usual western antics. It was as entertaining as most of Roy's movies are. Nothing much out of the ordinary.
On the other hand Adios Amigo is a bit out of the ordinary. It's not often you see Richard Pryor and Fred Williamson in a Western. I see that Richard's first credit was an episode of The Wild Wild West. I had forgotten he was on that show.
Adios Amigo came out in 1976 and I'm pretty sure that I hadn't seen it before. The elements of the Western are there, more a comedy than a drama, and the production is more Italian looking than American, even though it was filmed near Santa Fe New Mexico. The movie was written, produced and directed by Fred Williamson. He wrote a 12 page script, figuring that Richard would ad-lib all his lines and jokes. That part didn't work out so well but they manage to get through the movie anyway. It was shot in 9 days and looks it. It's pretty weak, joke wise, and it gets a 4.2 on the IMDb for a good reason. I only paid a couple of bucks for it and I feel I almost got my money worth.
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