Miraculously still alive after his hanging, gunfighter James Devlin defends a young widow's farm from a vicious land grabber.Miraculously still alive after his hanging, gunfighter James Devlin defends a young widow's farm from a vicious land grabber.Miraculously still alive after his hanging, gunfighter James Devlin defends a young widow's farm from a vicious land grabber.
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BarBara Luna
- Soledad Villegas
- (as Barbara Luna)
William Bryant
- Dr. Lawrence Nye
- (as Bill Bryant)
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Lew Halleck: You don't understand, Devlin. I mean to hire you.
James Devlin: I don't like you.
Lew Halleck: Lots of people don't. I still do business with them.
James Devlin: I don't like your way of doing.
Lew Halleck: Well, a man can't eat the walnuts unless he cracks a few shells.
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Blah made-for-TV western
Bland, predictable made-for-TV western has Steve Forrest as a feared gunfighter convicted of a murder and sentenced to hang, but who manages to survive the hanging and is set free. By-the-numbers script holds no surprises and the characterizations are all cardboard, including Forrest's one-note portrayal of a killer given a second chance. Bad-guy Cameron Mitchell chews the scenery, pretty Sharon Acker is earnest as a widow who owns a silver mine that "silver king" Mitchell wants to get and Will Geer is somewhat enjoyable as a crusty old-timer called "Nameless" who's Acker's hired hand. It's not long before you can predict exactly what's going to happen, what the bad guy's going to do, what the good guy's going to do and how things will be neatly wrapped up at the end. The whole production looks rushed and cheesy, the equivalent of a Monogram western of the '40s--and, like those Monogram westerns, it's a harmless time-waster. You could do worse, but you could also do much, much better.
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- fredcdobbs5
- Oct 28, 2014
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- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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