A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
Direction
Boetticher turns a single street into a pressure cooker.
Acting
Scott's simmering grief barely contained behind granite restraint.
Cinematography
Burns and Savidge make noon look like doom.
Director
Budd Boetticher
Randolph Scott
Bart Allison
John Carroll
Tate Kimbrough
Karen Steele
Lucy Summerton
Valerie French
Ruby James
Noah Beery Jr.
Sam
John Archer
Dr. John Storrow
Andrew Duggan
Sheriff Swede Hansen
James Westerfield
Otis, the Bartender
John Litel
Charles Summerton
Ray Teal
Morley Chase
Vaughn Taylor
Mr. Baldwin
Richard Deacon
Reverend Zaron
H.M. Wynant
Spanish
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