Two big shootouts bookend trim morality tale. Craggy Ford Rainey is featured as Marshal Floyd Buckman, a has-been, living on past laurels, who's too stubborn to admit he may have blundered. But unlike the ambitious lawyer who covets his job (played by pre-"Batman" Adam West), Buckman has integrity. The ember of hope that the old star packer's troubled conscience will restore his better nature in time to help The Virginian save Randy from the noose provides most of the plot's dramatic tension. Country character actor Shug Fisher plays an exuberant Buffalo Bill-style huckster who's the polar opposite of the stuffy Buckman. Fisher brings his symbolic character more fully to life than is written in the script.
Review of Legend for a Lawman
