For me, Edd Byrnes is the worst SW actor ever seen on the silver screen. I’ve seen him in Payment in Blood, Any Gun Can Play and in Red Blood Yellow Gold, and he was so unbelievably bad!
He just doesn’t fit into a SW. His look (his poor excuse of an Eastwood like quiff), his still Cookie-ish humour. I don’t buy this!
His version of a westerner might be good in an episode of Rawhide, but not in a real movie or even a SW.
He looked to boyish and his smug smile made me feel he should have been killed at times, but you never know I may start liking the guy when I view his other westerns.
Is there a trend coming from Wild East - first they release Edd Byrnes’ double feature (which I own) and now they’re planning a Hunt Powers double feature (which I will get regardless) so who is next on the bottom of the rung of SW stars to get a double feature?
He was quite alright in Payment in blood. There are surely many leading actors that are worse than him. Steffen in his most wooden mode is one of them for example