On his wedding day, a rancher (John Payne) is about to be married to the daughter (Lizabeth Scott) of one of the town's prominent citizens when a U.S. Marshal (Dan Duryea) and his deputies ride into town to arrest him for murder. Directed by Allan Dwan (SLIGHTLY SCARLET). A ripoff of HIGH NOON, this contrived western overplays its hand. At the beginning of the movie, the townspeople are Payne's friends but by the end, they've almost all turned against him! Like Gary Cooper in HIGH NOON, at the film's end Payne leaves the town in disgust. The film has its fans (like Martin Scorsese) and similarly like HIGH NOON, many see the movie's theme as anti McCarthyism. Lizabeth Scott is known for playing femme fatales but here she's wasted as the "good" girl which leaves Dolores Moran as the "bad" girl to hold our interest. It's watchable but not much more than that. With Stuart Whitman, John Hudson, Morris Ankrum and Harry Carey Jr.
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