7/10. Henry King directs Gregory Peck as a man hunting down four criminals across south Texas for the crime of raping and murdering his wife.
Enjoyable western, even if it was pretty dark in tone. Nice to see Stephen Boyd as the main bad guy. I wonder if this role is what got him the part of Messala in Ben-Hur the next year. I feel he is quite underrated.
Gregory Peck is wooden and cold as usual, but still sympathetic.
Not much else I can say about this film. Pretty much your run of the mill western for the fifties. Not as epic as The Searchers but somewhere in the middle ground. Just a little on the dark side, like I said.
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