Now here's an actor at full stretch - timed to a hair, using the space, mixing subtlety into broad comedy and absurdity into emotion.

It's hardly highly accomplished, with its blend of broad comedy, melodrama and shameless sentimentality.

I'd love to do a real western, a broad comedy.

But it still has considerable power to disturb — a potency achieved through an astute and calculatedly nasty use of broad comedy.

With its naff wigs, broad comedy and rather crude puppetry, this isn't a show much troubled with subtlety or dramatic sophistication.