Efficient Sheriff Caleb Wells is fired by the short-sighted town council, thus clearing the way for a group of hoodlums to vandalize the peaceful and defenseless town.
Hell Canyon Outlaws starts with a focus on the four gang members led by Brian Keith in the rain before the song comes over the credit. It's a typical Frankie Laine type of number which sets the scene. Originally titled Tall Trouble, or maybe it should've been call Trouble comes in four as the gang do just that- they cause havoc, but it only leads to murder at the end, prompting Dale Robertson, in a very good role as a sheriff who has been fired by the middling town council who think he isn't needed anymore as it's a peaceful town, to face the gang in a darkened saloon. It's tense shootout.
Brian Keith as the leader of the gang who acts like like grown up adolescents adds meat to his role. He's more controlled than the others but just as dangerous. The villainy here is earthly and mean rather than a pencil-twirling variety. There's plenty of going in this compact tough b-western and it makes for a good viewing. Shame it's so underrated. Similar type of western is the Plunderers with Jeff Chandler but the gang there are teens.
Hell Canyon Outlaws starts with a focus on the four gang members led by Brian Keith in the rain before the song comes over the credit. It's a typical Frankie Laine type of number which sets the scene. Originally titled Tall Trouble, or maybe it should've been call Trouble comes in four as the gang do just that- they cause havoc, but it only leads to murder at the end, prompting Dale Robertson, in a very good role as a sheriff who has been fired by the middling town council who think he isn't needed anymore as it's a peaceful town, to face the gang in a darkened saloon. It's tense shootout.
Brian Keith as the leader of the gang who acts like like grown up adolescents adds meat to his role. He's more controlled than the others but just as dangerous. The villainy here is earthly and mean rather than a pencil-twirling variety. There's plenty of going in this compact tough b-western and it makes for a good viewing. Shame it's so underrated. Similar type of western is the Plunderers with Jeff Chandler but the gang there are teens.