6/10
Nice-looking and agreeable Universal Western with Audie Murphy and Dan Duryea teaming up to track down two killers
25 April 2020
When his father and brother are killed , a railroad surveyor named Clay , Audie Murphy , seeks for vengeance , being helped by a prior outlaw called Kincade ,Dan Duryea,. Accompanied by the outlaw they set out in looking for the nasty rustlers who murdered his father. Along the way, Clay is appointed Deputy by the Sheriff Fred Kenyon , Paul Birch , and he falls in love for his niece Laurie , Susan Cabot. No one with a badge ever rides back from Diablo ¡. One was a deadly danger the other two! Adventure that explodes with violence and fury! He owed his life to his hired gun!

A decent Western with noisy action , go riding , pursuits and shootouts . This enjoyable picture results to be an ordinary oater but containing some novelties as the peculiar friendship between a fine surveyor seeking merciless vendetta and a laughing, fast-talking gunslinger, but it also has the usual elements as gundown, assaults, horse chases, and treason. Audie Murphy gives a nice acting in his usual style as a railway surveyor who takes his guns planning a relentless revenge and outwitting various attempts on his life. Audie was the most decorated soldier in WWII. Audie played a lot of Westerns, such as : The kid from Texas, Cimarron kid, Gunpoint, Night passage, The gunrunners , Gunfight at Comanche, Rifles Apaches , The unforgiven, 40 guns at Apache pass, Posse from hell, Red badge of courage, and 6 black horses also perfomed by Dan Duryea in a similar role to Ride clear of Devil. Here Dan Duryea steals the show as a sympathetic and laughing gunslinger who eventually helps Clay in his merciless vengeance .Both protagonists are well supported by a good support cast such as : the gorgeous Susan Cabot, charming Abbe Lane as a singer-dancer, Russell Johnson , Paul Birch as the marshall , William Pullen as an advocate at law , Denver Pyle as a reverend and the usual baddie Jack Elam .

It packs colorful cinematography by Irving Glassberg who provides a glimmer and brilliant ambiance. And thrilling and atmospheric soundtrack from uncredited Milton Rosen , Herman Stein , Universal's regular .The motion picture was professionally directed by Jesse Hibbs who made a great number of Westerns as Cinema as Television, such as : Rifleman, Laramie, The wild wild west, Rawhide, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Bronco, Wagon train, Wichita town, Walk the proud land. And he made various vehicles starred by Audie Murphy as To hell and back , World in my corner, Ride a crooked trail and Medal of honor. Rating 6/10. Acceptable and decent Audie Murphy movie that will appeal to Western aficionados.
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