A small great western with one star only Fred McMurray a sort of neglected actor, even had made greatest pictures as Double Indemnity, The Caine Mutiny, Pushover, The Apartment, just named a few, he had a natural gift and versatile to play different characters, although it was enough due he hadn't a handsome type as Hollywood's standard needing for.
He plays a lone Bank robbery Jim Larsen that ends up catch by a Deputy that on get on the train to taking him to the jail to be judge aftermaths, when his silly young brother Danny Larsen (Ron Hayes) steps in to unleash Jim, on the run a shoot-out takes place and the Deputy was gunned down by Danny that also was deadly wounded by shot, Jim decides take the train back aiming for carry in to a doctor, sadly Danny went to die on wagon train, thus in a pickle Jim pack Danny in a mail bag and throwing him at river, thru a disguise as mining manager Kin Kincaid reaching in a small town where the legalist local Sheriff Mark Riley (Lin McCarthy) in quandary due a fence built by a cattle rancher Reed William (Alan Bates) on state-owned lands, it creates a clash of interests among them.
Kincaid must leaves the town at once due the next train will bring the poster displaying the face of the Deputy's killer, although two things hold him there, the stubborn and adamant Sheriff about to die concerning the fence and his widow sister Ellen Bailey (Dorothy Green) whereof both have a mutual romantic interest, trapped in the city Kincaid gets a day job as Deputy at fence dissention escorting the inapt gun Sheriff against Redd Williams's flunkies among them the still unknown and upcoming star Purdy (James Coburn) that later will be wrapped on Fence's barbed wire famous sequence, fine compelling movie about a final redemption of an erratic man also I would like to emphasize the stunning performance by Lin McCarthy that never had a fair opportunity on majors classy movies, just a regular as guest star in several TV Series!!
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First watch: 1984 / Source: DVD / How many: 3 / Rating: 7.
He plays a lone Bank robbery Jim Larsen that ends up catch by a Deputy that on get on the train to taking him to the jail to be judge aftermaths, when his silly young brother Danny Larsen (Ron Hayes) steps in to unleash Jim, on the run a shoot-out takes place and the Deputy was gunned down by Danny that also was deadly wounded by shot, Jim decides take the train back aiming for carry in to a doctor, sadly Danny went to die on wagon train, thus in a pickle Jim pack Danny in a mail bag and throwing him at river, thru a disguise as mining manager Kin Kincaid reaching in a small town where the legalist local Sheriff Mark Riley (Lin McCarthy) in quandary due a fence built by a cattle rancher Reed William (Alan Bates) on state-owned lands, it creates a clash of interests among them.
Kincaid must leaves the town at once due the next train will bring the poster displaying the face of the Deputy's killer, although two things hold him there, the stubborn and adamant Sheriff about to die concerning the fence and his widow sister Ellen Bailey (Dorothy Green) whereof both have a mutual romantic interest, trapped in the city Kincaid gets a day job as Deputy at fence dissention escorting the inapt gun Sheriff against Redd Williams's flunkies among them the still unknown and upcoming star Purdy (James Coburn) that later will be wrapped on Fence's barbed wire famous sequence, fine compelling movie about a final redemption of an erratic man also I would like to emphasize the stunning performance by Lin McCarthy that never had a fair opportunity on majors classy movies, just a regular as guest star in several TV Series!!
Thanks for reading.
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First watch: 1984 / Source: DVD / How many: 3 / Rating: 7.