When gunslinger Jagade arrives in a law-abiding god-fearing town he manages to turn the townsfolk into scoff-law sinners while the town Marshal is powerless due to a moral debt to Jagade.When gunslinger Jagade arrives in a law-abiding god-fearing town he manages to turn the townsfolk into scoff-law sinners while the town Marshal is powerless due to a moral debt to Jagade.When gunslinger Jagade arrives in a law-abiding god-fearing town he manages to turn the townsfolk into scoff-law sinners while the town Marshal is powerless due to a moral debt to Jagade.
- Barfly
- (uncredited)
- Gaunt Farmer
- (uncredited)
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn scene whete ladies are coming back in to town When they pull up in front of saloon. One of the cowboys has a fitted ball cap on.
- GoofsIn almost every scene you can see that Dale Robertson is obviously reading off of cue cards.
- Quotes
Preacher Jason: That man is a creature of hell. If he stays here, he'll turn this town into a hell.
Marshal Allan Burnett: But he can't do it alone. Our problem is to keep him from stampeding us into helping him.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Get a Life (2006)
This Western is set in a time when law was expanding westward , appearing a mysterious stranger , who comes to embitter some embattled citizens. As gunslinger Jagade arrives in a law-abiding god-fearing town and he arranges to change the townsfolk into scoff-law sinners , while the town Marshal Allan Burnett is powerless due to a moral debt to Jagade , and things go wrong when the sheriff learns the previous relationship between his fiancée and Jagade . Well crafted Western with interesting screenplay by James Edmiston and Oscar Brodney , displaying twists and turns . Although atmospheric , it's also downbeat and sometimes just downright nasty . The story is almost terrific as the drifter comes to strange frontier town just in time to reckoning villagers and bandits. This stirring picture contains a powerful examination of morality and hypocrisy on people of a little town . Dale Roberson plays decently as an avenger gunslinger , though only this time the pistolero appears to have been sent from hell rather than heaven to carry out a vendetta . Jock Mahoney gives a good acting as a Marshal who is caught between the town citizens fears and the debt he owes the gunslinger. While the third starring , Mara Corday , shows brilliantly her beauty and and gorgeous face . Good casting with several notorious and familiar secondaries as Carl Benton Reid , Jan Merlin , Dee Carroll, Malcolm Atterbury , Phil Chambers , James Bell , and John Dehner as a reverend.
This Universal Pictures movie with great main and support cast, being efficiently produced and competently directed . Furthermore, it contains a colorful and glimmer cinematography by Ellis Carter . As well as rousing and stirring musical score by Irving Gertz and Henry Mancini , though uncredited .This outlandish motion picture produced by Robert Arthur was professionally directed by Harmon Jones. He was a craftsman who worked as a production manager, editor, producer and filmmaker. He directed all kinds of genres as Westerns, drama, Thriller, Comedy, Film Noir, such as : The beast of Budapest, Wolf Larsen, Gorilla at large, Target zero, Canyon river, City of bad men , The pride of St Louis, Bloodhound of Broadway, As young a you feel. And he directed a lot of episodes of popular TV series as Land of giants , Death valley, Voyage to the bottom of the sea, The Virginian, Iron Horse, Perry Mason, Gunslinger, Daniel Boone, Iron Horse, The Monroe, The Zorro, among others. Rating 6. 5/10. Decent and above average Western.
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- Jun 3, 2020
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1
- 2:1