
A cowboy rides into a small town that is ruled with an iron fist by a corrupt Sheriff. He becomes involved with a pretty young town girl and some residents who are trying to oust the Sheriff, resulting in a robbery, a murder, and his being pursued by a vengeful posse.... (Full plot summary below)
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A cowboy rides into a small town that is ruled with an iron fist by a corrupt Sheriff. He becomes involved with a pretty young town girl and some residents who are trying to oust the Sheriff, resulting in a robbery, a murder, and his being pursued by a vengeful posse.
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| User ReviewDavid WJack Nicholson in an early 1960's western. Awesome. |
| User ReviewJames BNicholson is clearly the best actor from the get go. The dialogue from the others sounds silmilr to children reading from a novel ot loud in literature class. The movie is only an hour long, which makes it easy to digest the slow plot and sub-par filming. Nicholson is very young, but his trademark quick response time is visible. Give the man an hour of your time, he has given so much more to American cinema. |
| User ReviewLou AA young Jack Nicholson is the only reason to watch this film. Jack was 25 years old when he appeared in "The Broken Land." At first, I didn't even recognize him, or even his classic one-of-a kind voice. Jack's the only actor in the cast (veteran Kent Taylor comes in second) who can bring to life the lousy dialogue. With a 60 minute run time (the "director's cut" is 75 minutes, according to IMDb), at least it goes by quickly. Maybe this film was the bottom half of a drive-in double feature (if anyone remembers drive-ins). If one does remember drive-ins, there was undoubtedly more action going on in the back seat of Daddy's Chevy then on the screen. Could be grindhouse material as well. |