Ever watch a low budget film and wonder how the original audience felt about it after watching it in their cars at the drive-through? I'm sure that a vast majority of people who watched this originally in 1962 either fell asleep or hated it. Those that did like it may have been some women and those enjoying the color scenery photography. I say perhaps some women may have liked it because the female lead of the film has a lot of lines. This film has so much talking and it ends in a fistfight instead of a gunfight. Jack Nicholson has a co star role that's OK, nothing memorable as far as lines go, he does have a crooked type grin so by now he had begun establishing his master character in all his films. I rate this a 4, 2 for the color photography and 2 to see Jack in his early career. I recorded this from my DVR set to record Roger Corman films which he produced here uncredited. The Broken Land broke my fast forward button even at its short length. 4 out of 10, pass.
Review of The Broken Land
