What struck me as unique in this colorful but dark western is how genuinely mean everyone was to bounty hunter Randolph Scott, out to claim a reward for bringing back wanted criminal Robert Keys. Going from hotel proprietor Ernest Borgnine to Keys' wife, Marie Windsor, and all the way down to the local law and even church goers, he's about as welcome as a swarm of bees at a town picnic.
The character played by Scott isn't exactly a paragon of virtue either, his snarling vocabulary as he stalks Keys sounding like something that a hardboiled detective would tell a criminal in a film noir. Pretty decent for what looks like your stereotypical B western that kids rushed to on a Saturday morning and doesn't stop in action even after the bounty gets their man.
The character played by Scott isn't exactly a paragon of virtue either, his snarling vocabulary as he stalks Keys sounding like something that a hardboiled detective would tell a criminal in a film noir. Pretty decent for what looks like your stereotypical B western that kids rushed to on a Saturday morning and doesn't stop in action even after the bounty gets their man.