Directed by Don Chaffey. Richard Roundtree, Roy Thinnes. Revisionist western. This opens with a brutal dog fight in the credits, so thirty seconds into the movie and I already hated it, but as it wore on in the first hour something strange started to happen; my mind began to change. Roundtree's character is a total asshole, and most of the movie is just him and Thinnes, but by the end of the first hour the locations and the way it was shot had me interested. By the time Nigel Davenport as the bounty hunter and the one-eyed chicken showed up, I was intrigued. By the time it ended I had come all the way back around and actually liked the movie a lot. That is incredibly rare. Usually when I hate a movie within the first minute, I continue to hate it right through to the end. I've never been able to find an uncut version since that first viewing when I had it on the DVR. Youtube has it for rent. Don Chaffey also directed Pete's Dragon, which was another oddball tidbit for this oddball 70s western.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_One-Eye
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068358/
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