An Audie Murphy Western from 1960. Murphy plays a Texas ranger tasked w/bringing in a charming desperado. Once caught & led back to justice, Murphy & Jim Flood, played by Barry Sullivan, soon become friends even though Sullivan may be a helluva guy, he's a clear cut sociopath (in the film's opening he races from a saloon w/guns a-blazing & for good measure he sets the establishment on fire). What is essentially the same plot for another Murphy oater, 1954's Ride Clear of Diablo, w/Dan Duryea playing the Sullivan part, the film is stacked in Sullivan's favor even though by no stretch of the imagination does he engender any audience sympathy. Look for John McIntire as Murphy's partner, Kenneth Tobey as a fellow ranger & Jack Kruschen who memorably played Dr. Dreyfus in The Apartment which he received an Oscar nomination for in the same year.
Review of Seven Ways from Sundown
