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*Plot and ending analyzed*
Howard Duff stars in this bland and average Western that doesn't excite or entice much. He did quite a few of these commonplace Westerns. They don't have the stories that are very powerful and the direction is entirely conventional.
Still, I'll watch any Western.
Here he plays a cowboy who saves another cowboy and gets a 'stake' in a mine. But when he goes to town he encounters opposition and hostility because a few folks think he's a claim jumper (one who occupies illegally someone's property to which another has a legal claim).
He gets some help from a well-off man but then even that goes downhill when the guy that Howard Duff saved, robs and kills a stage and its driver. The well-off man doesn't believe his friend killed or robbed anyone. Howard Duff goes looking for him to clear things up but has to shoot him.
Don't except much. Not a complete loss though.
*Plot and ending analyzed*
Howard Duff stars in this bland and average Western that doesn't excite or entice much. He did quite a few of these commonplace Westerns. They don't have the stories that are very powerful and the direction is entirely conventional.
Still, I'll watch any Western.
Here he plays a cowboy who saves another cowboy and gets a 'stake' in a mine. But when he goes to town he encounters opposition and hostility because a few folks think he's a claim jumper (one who occupies illegally someone's property to which another has a legal claim).
He gets some help from a well-off man but then even that goes downhill when the guy that Howard Duff saved, robs and kills a stage and its driver. The well-off man doesn't believe his friend killed or robbed anyone. Howard Duff goes looking for him to clear things up but has to shoot him.
Don't except much. Not a complete loss though.