A slightly above Average Fifties Western with Robert Ryan, Technicolor, and Cinemascope the main reasons to catch this rather uninvolving misfire. Things come alive now and then that propel the dreariness and flat handedness to an interesting level.
For example, when the Marshall lectures the Town Counsel and says..."you'd sell out for a copper penny, with your $40 Boots and your $12 Hotel Rooms...I couldn't look in the mirror without vomiting". The Movie breaks toward the edge a few times with some taut gun-play and suspicious motives, but it also lingers and has some very uninspired moments. The target practice piece and some other wasted Screen time with the Love Interest, a Family Man, and Walter Brennan who just sort of sits around.
The Script is also not very convincing with its Back Story, but this is worth a view if nothing much to make it stand out among its Betters. But is a notch above a Western Programmer or the plethora of others from the Decade that are much worse.
For example, when the Marshall lectures the Town Counsel and says..."you'd sell out for a copper penny, with your $40 Boots and your $12 Hotel Rooms...I couldn't look in the mirror without vomiting". The Movie breaks toward the edge a few times with some taut gun-play and suspicious motives, but it also lingers and has some very uninspired moments. The target practice piece and some other wasted Screen time with the Love Interest, a Family Man, and Walter Brennan who just sort of sits around.
The Script is also not very convincing with its Back Story, but this is worth a view if nothing much to make it stand out among its Betters. But is a notch above a Western Programmer or the plethora of others from the Decade that are much worse.