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| Acme Films | Release Date: May 8, 1969 |
Starring:
Carroll O'Connor, David Opatoshu, Dub Taylor, Jacqueline Scott, John Saxon, Kent Smith, Larry Gates, Lena Horne, Morgan Woodward, Richard Widmark
Summary:
A Texas town's council fires the town's old-fashioned marshal who refuses to resign, thus leading to violence from both sides.
Sharp small-scale western set in a nasty frontier community that finds its incorruptible old-style sheriff (Richard Widmark) a barrier to its joining the 20th century. Widmark is excellent, as is Lena Horne as the handsome saloon-keeper he marries. [17 Apr 2011, p.52]
A fringe Siegel Western (he spent two weeks finishing it off). The theme of a law and order marshal who has tamed a frontier town, only to become an embarrassment to the 'civilised' community, is sufficiently interesting for one to wonder what it would have been like if Siegel had done the whole thing.
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The general tone, and point — festering hatred — is simply not enough to make the picture matter, although Mr. Widmark almost single-handedly does. Tough, laconic, squinty-eyed and moving around deceptively like a tired, middle-aged panther, he gives this characterization a scorching vibrancy.
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