It was also one of the few Western films to receive critical and commercial success in the 1970s at a time when the Western was thought to be dying as a major genre in Hollywood.
Osim toga, bio je to i jedan od nekoliko vesterna koji su doživjeli umjetnički i komercijalni uspjeh u sedamdesetima, periodu kad se smatralo da je vestern na izdisaju kao glavni holivudski žanr.