Thought it was a weak effort - the next 3 following films of Randolph Scott ( his last 3 before he retired ) , were all very good and he was so much better- much better scripts to work with perhaps, I guess - he seems kind of dry here more like acting/feeling his age in this movie - he was 60 years old - and thought it was all pretty average fare - a lot of talk , not a lot of dramatic tension - and he goes from being a father figure to Karen Steele and her husband , to a romantic interest at the end - he's 60 and she's 27 and newly widowed in the film - that made him seem even older - Not a lot of tension with main bad guy here as in other better Scott /Budd Boetticher (and those written by Burt Kennedy ) efforts like where had Richard Boone , Claude Akins , Lee Marvin or Lee Van Cleef being the menacingly 'smiling villains facing him .
