This is an unusual Western in the way it treats characters as though they are three dimensional.
It involves three main characters, safe to say, the three "handsome" guys, Calhoun, Robertson, and Wagner. They even look alike, which is part of the character study. It's flip sides of the same face.
All three are quite believable in this tale of keeping law and order in the old West and not allowing mob justice.
The mob justice is the interesting part here. It isn't like most Westerns. Instead, we get "thinking" people in the mob, instead of Hollywood caricatures. That's what makes the movie stand out as the most prominent of lynch mob movies.
It involves three main characters, safe to say, the three "handsome" guys, Calhoun, Robertson, and Wagner. They even look alike, which is part of the character study. It's flip sides of the same face.
All three are quite believable in this tale of keeping law and order in the old West and not allowing mob justice.
The mob justice is the interesting part here. It isn't like most Westerns. Instead, we get "thinking" people in the mob, instead of Hollywood caricatures. That's what makes the movie stand out as the most prominent of lynch mob movies.