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The Beast of Hollow Mountain

(1956)

Two cowboys both want to grow their cows in the same place, so naturally they're always giving each other grief. In one scene, for example, they get into a brawl over some ugly chick in a Mexican market and totally bust the place up. I felt sort of bad for the Mexicans during this part- they're poor as hell already and then these two assholes come along and wreck all their shit just because they have to prove whose cock is bigger. Sure, all that cheap Mexican crap was probably only worth about three dollars, but still. Later some of the good guy's cows disappear and he reckons they got rustled, so he rounds up some other cats and they go looking for them. While they're looking they pass this house and here's their conversation:

"Who lives in that house?"
"Nobody- it's the abandoned house."

Classic. Anyway, in the end it turns out the guy rustling all the cows isn't a guy at all, it's a dinosaur. The dinosaur stampedes all the cows* and then comes after the good guy and he has to fight it. Cowboys vs. dinosaurs isn't such a bad idea, but this flick really needed more dinosaurs and, frankly, more cowboys, and they should have had this huge battle where they fucked everything up- like a whole cowboy town or something. That would have been awesome.

*Any time there are cows in a cowboy movie, there always has to be a part where they stampede. Everyone always makes a big deal out of it when this happens, but I've never seen a movie yet where they stampede through a church picnic or right over a cliff or anything like that, so who gives a shit? Let 'em stampede. Stupid cows.