A lot of the time in the 1950's Westerns gave out a very clean and very tidy view of the the ' old ' West, and many of them are very watchable. A few were very violent, but towards the end of the decade, in my opinion, the rot set in and violence was increasing and extreme violence became more threatening. In this film ordinary citizens of a town are threatened of being burnt alive, and intimidated by violent action all the way through. A judge played adequately by Fred McMurray has condemned a man to hang, and his outlaw friends try by every cruel method possible to prevent it. No more spoilers. I found the film ugly and lacking in any likeable way despite the presence of two actors I like ; Marie Windsor and John Ericson. I watched the film all the way through, saddened that I was seeing the prelude of much more violence to come in the decades that followed when the Western genre still filled cinemas.
Review of Day of the Bad Man
