A whodunit masquerading as western : all the heirs of an old prospector become suspect after his murder ,as sleuth Mahoney investigates (with a rival, a bounty hunter ,who wants his share) ; an ominous name ,Judas , on the list ,whom nobody seems to know but that will be the culprit's downfall (a trick Agatha Christie would not disown ).....
The suspects are sometimes pure cliché : the King family ,with the widow, son and grandpa has been seen by the average western buff a hundred times or more : the part of the woman is unworthy of highly talented Kim Hunter , who shone in "the seventh victim" and mainly as Stella Kowalski née Du Bois in "a streetcar named desire ".
The Gunston couple is much more endearing played by William Campbell and Judith Meredith ,a sick woman who "would crawl to walk out on her husband if he did not stay on the straight and narrow "; the sheriff is hard on this ex-convict and does not seem to allow him a legitimate second chance .The attack of the mail van is all in all an act of love .
Unexpected culprit , as it is de rigueur in the whodunit ; entertaining.
The suspects are sometimes pure cliché : the King family ,with the widow, son and grandpa has been seen by the average western buff a hundred times or more : the part of the woman is unworthy of highly talented Kim Hunter , who shone in "the seventh victim" and mainly as Stella Kowalski née Du Bois in "a streetcar named desire ".
The Gunston couple is much more endearing played by William Campbell and Judith Meredith ,a sick woman who "would crawl to walk out on her husband if he did not stay on the straight and narrow "; the sheriff is hard on this ex-convict and does not seem to allow him a legitimate second chance .The attack of the mail van is all in all an act of love .
Unexpected culprit , as it is de rigueur in the whodunit ; entertaining.