Very simple story (could easily have been a silent), filmed simply, in California, from Elmore Leonard, adapted by Burt Kennedy. Randolph Scott starts off by smiling a lot, does less so when friend and son are down the bottom of the well, murdered by Richard Boone, Henry Silva and Skip Homeier. Maureen O'Sullivan is hastily widowed, but ex-husband for a day John Hubbard is a spineless fortune-hunter anyway.
Photographed by Charles Lawton. My first Boetticher, I think, at least recently. I didn't think 'wow!' but I'd watch another.
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