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Release Date:
5 November 1955 (USA) moreTagline:
A man who lived and breathed violence! morePlot:
A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
We need that guy right here and now! moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Robert Mitchum | ... | Clint Tollinger | |
| Jan Sterling | ... | Nelly Bain | |
| Karen Sharpe | ... | Stella Atkins | |
| Henry Hull | ... | Marshal Lee Sims | |
| Emile Meyer | ... | Saul Atkins | |
| John Lupton | ... | Jeff Castle | |
| Barbara Lawrence | ... | Ann Wakefield | |
| Ted de Corsia | ... | 'Frenchy' Lescaux (as Ted De Corsia) | |
| Leo Gordon | ... | Ed Pinchot | |
| James Westerfield | ... | Mr. Zender (drummer) |
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83 minCountry:
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Certification:
Australia:G | West Germany:12 (nf) | Norway:16 | USA:Approved (certificate #17526) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15MOVIEmeter: 
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Stella Atkins: Those guns... all that talk about fighting... what happened to you today. I'm scared!Jeff Castle: Honey, you just can't keep on turning the other cheek with a cemetery as big as we've got.
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I don't remember ever seeing this one before tonight, probably the title sounded so ordinary it kept passing me by. But it is a well crafted b Western, with an interestingly brooding storyline complimented by acting veering from the good to corny.
Robert Mitchum slopes into wide open town looking for his wife and news of their daughter, and stays for a time as town-tamer. As usual the good business folk have mixed emotions - they want to get rid of the baddies but like the business they bring. It still applies: relax drink and gambling laws and encourage the industries but pretend to deplore the seedy effects it can have on ordinary people. What's fascinating about this film is Mitchum's cynically intense portrayal in going about cleaning the town of baddies, and the townsfolk's acceptance that his violent methods were the only ones. Favourite bit: the sudden demise of 2 of the baddies in the Red Dog saloon. The firing of the main saloon bordered on nasty, but it was an effective way to combat the spread of poison.
Overall a very good film with its only fault tending to be a little hokeyness - not so good for Do-Gooders who would probably prefer a lifetime of negotiation with Evil rather than end it.