
On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and an untrustworthy gambler and he decides to get shelter nearby from outlaw relatives he used to run with. They don't trust him and he loathes them but they decide he can help them with one last bank job.... (Full plot summary below)
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On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and an untrustworthy gambler and he decides to get shelter nearby from outlaw relatives he used to run with. They don't trust him and he loathes them but they decide he can help them with one last bank job.
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| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThis late CinemaScope western by the great Anthony Mann achieves a tragic intensity and a monumental scenic splendor despite some serious handicaps. |
| VarietyVariety StaffCooper gives a characteristically virile performance, his dominance of the outlaws quietly believable, while London achieves some touching and convincing moments in a difficult role. |
| GuardianDerek MalcolmMann's direction is immaculate, making Reginald Rose's clearly allegorical, and sometimes forced, screenplay seem even better than it is. |
| User ReviewMichael KA tough, bleak, superbly acted and directed western. Gary Cooper and Lee J Cobb have never been better and Julie London's fine performance is highly underrated. |
| User ReviewMike LMann's last Western doesn't the credit of his pictures with James Stewart but I think it's every bit as great. |
| User ReviewGreg WLike, were all the best westerns made in the '50s? (Yes.) |
| User ReviewChance FOne of the best Western ever made Gary Cooper is grandious as a Former Outlaw who is now a Sober Citizen but is drawn back in his old Personaliy when his Old Compangions robb the Train he is driving in it shows how a Man can change over the Years every Scene is great made the Train Robbery, the Scenes at the Cottage, the Fight between Gary Cooper and Jack Lord, the Shootouts in the Town at the End a beautiful, entertaining and bounding Western with great Dialouges and a bombastic Soundtrack Gary Cooper is one of the coolest Heroes in Western History |
| User ReviewVJ BUn modele du western crepusculaire, dirige par un petit maitre souvent plus talentueux que les grands, et porte par l'autre incarnation absolue du genre : Gary Cooper, qui avait debute, comme John Wayne, dans des westerns muets. |
| User ReviewFitz LMise en scene upon mise en scene!!!....'till the finale confrontation! This is Modernist Western! Anthony Mann is the Leonardo Da Vinci of Western......pure ingenuity of execution! |
| User ReviewPrivate UThis is arguably one of the first revisionist westerns, in it's bleak and uncompromising view of the western myth. In one of his last roles, Gary Cooper gives a very subdued, but effective performance as Linc Jones, the reformed outlaw forced back into his old gang. Even though it's not as iconic, this is a better film than High Noon and one of the greatest westerns I've ever seen. Now, I need to see more Anthony Mann pictures! |