Video Review: 'Blood on the Moon' (1994)

Director Robert Wise's first big-budget picture has acquired a cult reputation as a genre hybrid — it's a Western film noir — but aside from a lot of night scenes with moody photography, the claim seems exaggerated. Blood on the Moon is a standard-issue horse opera notable for one well-staged barroom brawl between Mitchum and Robert Preston. Still, it's nice to have it on laserdisc from an okay print, but be warned: Wise's bonus and often boring commentary isn't likely to remind you of Noel Coward. B