Universal Pictures
Directed by Don Siegel, Robert Totten
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Encore)
Bland soap opera dressed up as a western shot on the generic Universal back lot. Richard Widmark is the the sheriff that everyone in town hates. He is asked to resign by the town leaders but refuses. I still don't know why. He shoots and kills a number of men, either in self defense or by accident. Carroll O'Connor seems to be his main nemesis, but his motivation is unclear, heck I don't even know what his character did or why he lived in the town. Lena Horne is wasted as Widmark's love interest. That red headed kid from the Disney Dexter Riley series, Michael McGreevey, is here, but I don't know why. It's the first use of the "Allan Smithee" pseudonym, so the real directors must not have thought much of the finished product either.
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