Great Film overall

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This movie can rightly be called a top western film.The Red Indian wife of a Marshall is raped and murdered and the main culprit is the son of a land baron. Almost single handedly the Marshall attempts to bring in the baddie(s) and is up against powerful forces and a mob.So can justice be done?Excellent locations, and the dusty salon loving town and its folk plus a magnificent steam engine more or less steal the show. I had the benefit of renting this film and watching it on my Tablet. Great viewing as the picture quality is first rate.Superstars take all the main roles and do not disappoint!8/10

In an era when movie plots were quite similar I just can't refrain from saying that this movie is an excellent copycat of Columbia Pictures' 3:10 to Yuma played by Glenn Ford and Van Heflin two 2 year earlier. The movies are not exactly the same but the hotel scenes and having to wait for the train would be enough for today's Apple's lawyers if working for Columbia to sue Paramount. But never mind, both movies are excellent; perhaps the stronger characters of Kirk Douglass and Anthony Quinn beat soft Glenn Ford. To make it even watch 3:10 to Yuma's 2007 excellent remake by Christian "Batman" Bale & Russell Crowe. I still can't figure out how Police Woman's Earl Holliman who plays Quinn's son made it to Hollywood but again, in the fifties grocery clerks with absolutely no acting skills became actors (ring a bell?... the guy with the famous poncho!).

Sometimes, in the crucial moments of our lives we have no choice whatsoever, it is as destiny has already established our course. That is what happens to Morgan (Douglas) and Belden (Quinn), when Belden's son (Holliman) commits a barbaric act of murder and rape, the victim being Morgan's wife. Morgan and Belden were friends,and nobody would think they would ever fight each other, but now everything changes. John Sturges directed famous westerns (Magnificent Seven, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Bad Day at Black Rock), and this one is good, but not quite on the same level. The colors in the film are very sharp, with what seems to be a predominance of green and this is in contrast with the intense drama, a more sombre color would be more appropriate, except at the sequence of the rape where it is excellent.

Marshal tracks down the man who raped and murdered his wife. This is a tightly constructed and suspenseful Western with the plot having parallels to "3:10 to Yuma" and "The Bravados," both released in the couple of years preceding this one. While Douglas had a tendency to overact, here he gives a controlled performance as the marshal seeking vengeance. Quinn is equally effective as the powerful father of the murderer. Also good is Jones as a tough broad who has connections to both men. This is one of several fine Westerns Sturges made during the 1950s, including "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" with Douglas, and his direction is quite efficient here.