Review of Scalplock

Caught this on Encore Western. Dale Robertson, as Ben Calhoun, is a gambler who walks the line between being a 'little engine that could' hero, and a brazen bragging buffoon throughout the film, after winning a tiny, one locomotive, bankrupt railroad, in a card game. He immediately starts acting as if he is the wealthiest tycoon in the West, throwing $10. bills into a crowd, and commandeering the nearly finished private rail car made for aristocratic Burton Standish(John Anderson), who was elsewhere at that time. Inside this railcar, Calhoun is astonished that it includes the bedroom for a pretty girl.(Diane Hyland as Marta). However, she's not impressed with the unexpected owner of her bedroom, and continuously lets this be known to him. She finds him a letdown from her portrait of a distinguished-looking Mr. Standish. In fact, in the end, she rides off in a buggy with Mr. Standish, after Calhoun had just won an important legal case relating to his? railroad, vowing to continue building his railroad. No matter. In the meanwhile, he had found another girlfriend in Sandra Smith, as Joana..........In the beginning, Calhoun found that his work crew had gone on strike because they hadn't been paid. Calhoun didn't have such money, so he offered them shares in the railroad, pointing out that it would partly be their railroad that they would build. Amazingly, they eventually accepted this deal..........Actually, I think of this film as a western comedy, driven by Calhoun's amusing sense of self importance, and facility in getting out of tight situations...,,,,,Available at YouTube, both via streaming and pay per view.