The legend of Butch and Sundance wouldn't have gotten very far if their adventures ended in Broken Bow. Sometimes it would be better if film makers kept the legendary names out of the story and just made up different ones.

You had to figure Charlie Veer (Douglas Kennedy) was up to something the first time he showed up in the story. If you've seen enough of these B Westerns, you figure there's some kind of set up along the way to keep the good guy, this time Brady Sutton (Phil Carey),off kilter long enough for the story to play itself out.

Here's the question I need answered - when Brady recognized Sundance at the Broken Bow bank and warned Sheriff McVey (Roy Roberts),why would they then move the strongbox with the bank's money over to the jail for safekeeping, only to leave it in an unlocked cell? That just didn't make any sense to me.

The story plays out typically enough, as we learn that Veer's a Pinkerton agent, the conflicted Brady remains a good guy (with some coaxing),and the Hole in the Wall Gang really have a Hole in the Wall hideout - at both ends! The biggest surprise of the picture for me however, and I never would have known it if I hadn't checked the full cast and crew credits, was the identity of the simpleton in Cassidy's gang who hid the gold and liked birds. That was Aaron Spelling!! - probably realizing he had a better future on the other side of the camera.

If you're thinking you'll be getting those lovable rogues from Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid in Wyoming Renegades you'd be dead wrong. This Hole In The Wall gang features a mean, but very crafty Butch Cassidy in Gene Evans and a charming, but deadly Sundance Kid in William Bishop.

I will say that Evans and Bishop don't end up in Bolivia but they do come to justice in Wyoming Renegades. And it's all because they won't let gang member Philip Carey just go his own way.

Carey returns to his home town and just wants to open the family blacksmith business again after his stretch in prison. But except for the girl he left behind Martha Hyer and a stranger in town Douglas Kennedy no one wants him. When Evans and Bishop try to pull a holdup of the bank then they really don't want him.

Without name stars this western has a nice ring of authenticity even though the plot is totally made up. I liked how Gene Evans played Cassidy, he's one crafty villain and nobody's fool.

As for how he's gotten, all I'll say is there was one person that Evans never figured on for outsmarting him.

Wanted: Butch Cassidy. These signs are all over the wild west and of course, they pop up in Wyoming where ex-con Philip Carey is preparing to return to his hometown to reconnect with his old love Martha Hyer and make a new life while proving he's changed. That won't be easy with Butch and his gang casing the town bank and before the gang is even out of town after the robbery, Carey is being excommunicated once again. Determined to clear his name, Carey infiltrates the gang once again, aiding them in a train robbery which Hyer just happens to be on. Tension between Butch (Gene Evans) and his gang arise over both Carey and Hyer's presence which aids Carey in his efforts to bring the gang down.

Easy on the eye and fast moving, this ain't no "High Noon", but Carey is a likable hero. "One Life to Live" fans will delight in seeing the future "Asa Buchannan" (daytime's answer to J.R. Ewing) in the lead role. Of course, the legend of Butch and Sundance (played here by William Bishop) has been told in a far more detailed and better film. There's a great show-down late in the film where the women of the town get together and prove that they are capable of more than just washing the laundry by hand, cooking for their roughneck men and becoming the mothers of future cowboys.