ON THE WRONG TRACK

It’s MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS in the Old West. The continuing saga of Otto “Big Red” and Gustav “Old Red” Amlingmeyer (Holmes on the Range) is a genuine knee-slapper. When the brothers are hired to guard the Southern Pacific Railroad from the train-robbing Give-’em-Hell Boys, Gustav, an ardent admirer of Sherlock Holmes, begins “deducifying,” with Otto providing the muscle, along with sarcastic observations. William Dufris gives an engaging performance of the likable cowpokes and the unruly assortment of scoundrels and ne’er-do-wells that surround them. His attitude is pitch-perfect to the period as are his renderings of a drunken ex-lawman, a beautiful woman, a rail-riding bum with pretensions, a Chinese doctor, a Negro porter, and many more eccentrics. Dufris brings flamboyance, charm, and hilarity to Hockensmith’s wild, wild Western. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: OCT/ NOV 07]