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Information
- Year
- 1953
- Runtime
- 78 min.
- Director
- Roy Rowland
- Genres
- Romance, Western
- Rating *
- 5.9
- Votes *
- 161
- Checks
- 62
- Favs
- 0
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 0.0% (0:62)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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TomReagan
Delightful, if unrefined, Western. After seeing what bad reviews this movie received on IMDb, I was expecting a major stinker. But the first half-hour is so damn good, it was easy to stick around for the silly love story and drama that followed. I can only guess that most reviewers are grading this on a Stanwyck-MacMurray scale, as their other three films are much higher quality (and Stanwyck is only really in the third act). The screenplay and direction could have definitely been more refined, but for a 78-minute western that has all the goods: a lynching, revenge, bank robbery, gun fight, and betrayal, and to top it off, the protagonist, MacMurray (along with Ward Bond) is on the other side of the law, it deserves a better rating. 3 years 11 months ago