Inspiration was running low when Steve Fisher's original story was recycled yet again in what is basically a TV episode glossily opened out for the big screen in Techniscope with meaner brawls (marred by the obvious use of doubles), a noisy score by Richard LaSalle, and Audie Murphy as usual impossibly pretty and clean-cut despite his supposedly shady past (with Merrie Anders gorgeous but largely peripheral as the local schoolmarm).
Among a generally rather elderly supporting cast (including silent veteran Raymond Hatton), Ted de Corsia, Mort Mills and Rex Holman make memorably mean heavies (with Mills' eventual fate quite pleasing).
Among a generally rather elderly supporting cast (including silent veteran Raymond Hatton), Ted de Corsia, Mort Mills and Rex Holman make memorably mean heavies (with Mills' eventual fate quite pleasing).