Monday, January 3, 2011

The Lone Hand (1953)


Universal-International
Directed by George Sherman
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Encore)

The usually bland Joel McCrae is surprisingly watchable as a single father with a young boy who takes up farming but falls in with a local gang of stagecoach robbers. In shades of Shane, the boy is heartbroken when his dad goes bad. Even a new mom, Barbara Hale, can't help him cope, and she suspects the worst. However, in a plot twist not entirely unpredicted McCrae shows everyone he's not such a bad guy after all.

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