If you want to see Rock Hudson wearing his big 1970s mustache before the 1970s, rent The Lawless Breed. You might not get much more out of the movie than that, but at least you'll get a good chuckle. In one of his first starring roles, he plays a dangerous outlaw in the Wild West. It's not very believable, but then again, you could give the same criticism for many westerns in the 1950s.
He starts the movie off as an old man being released from prison. While in jail, he wrote his memoirs, and he drops off his manuscript at a publisher's office to tell his tale. The rest of the movie is told in flashbacks as we find out how he fell in love, how he got in trouble, how he married Julia Adams and went on the run after breaking the law. With movies like this one, it's a wonder Universal Studios continued to push him on the public. If you absolutely love Rock Hudson and want to see him in his early days, go ahead, but have a better movie handy for a double feature.
He starts the movie off as an old man being released from prison. While in jail, he wrote his memoirs, and he drops off his manuscript at a publisher's office to tell his tale. The rest of the movie is told in flashbacks as we find out how he fell in love, how he got in trouble, how he married Julia Adams and went on the run after breaking the law. With movies like this one, it's a wonder Universal Studios continued to push him on the public. If you absolutely love Rock Hudson and want to see him in his early days, go ahead, but have a better movie handy for a double feature.