This is one of the best westerns and murder mysteries I've ever seen.
Randolph Scott plays an ever unpopular private for-profit law enforcer - bounty hunter - who agrees for a not small fortune at Pinkerton's! Request to track down the 3 unknown survivors of a murderous gang of train robbers who have vanished. One of them was wounded in the leg.
We are shown on a map how he calculates the robbers' radius of action and where the first place to look for them may be, the small town of Twin Forks.
He logically asks the town doctor if he treated anyone like that, and although the doctor refuses to talk claiming patient confidentiality, his very pretty daughter indicates there was someone.
(The doctor addressing Randolph Scott as a "young man" attempts to downplay the age difference between a very young and pretty Delores Dorn, too obviously, but Scott fans probably aren't deterred.)
Everyone in town seems threatened by him - is the whole town in on this? - including a young local resident and husband and father who tries to kill him but turns out not to be one of the 3. And there is a similar encounter in his hotel room.
Bounty Hunters Not Wanted.
The local sheriff has him on short notice, and the local gambler's girlfriend tries to use her charms to learn more about him - what he knows.
He takes the daughter to church, where his true name and identity are exposed, and she decides she wants no part of him, maybe also because of her father's suspicious behavior.
The doctor tries to warn the gambler and is then shot by him!
Suspect No. 1? ... and No. 2?? ... and then the sheriff shoots the gambler who seemed ready to talk?
The town postmaster! Then tries (with a pillow) to suffocate the seriously wounded doctor in bed, and when the daughter apprehends him, he tries to strangle *her* ... and then tries to escape out of town pursued by Kipp.
And it gets believably crazier after that!
I'll let viewers find out who the 3 residing robbers are, but the denouement after the climax is pricelessly classic with a very young Fess Parker and 2 other thrill-seeking cowboys riding into town wildly shooting into the air and then learning to their SHOCK that *Jim Kipp* is there. :-)
Tragically, Delores Dorn never had children..
Randolph Scott plays an ever unpopular private for-profit law enforcer - bounty hunter - who agrees for a not small fortune at Pinkerton's! Request to track down the 3 unknown survivors of a murderous gang of train robbers who have vanished. One of them was wounded in the leg.
We are shown on a map how he calculates the robbers' radius of action and where the first place to look for them may be, the small town of Twin Forks.
He logically asks the town doctor if he treated anyone like that, and although the doctor refuses to talk claiming patient confidentiality, his very pretty daughter indicates there was someone.
(The doctor addressing Randolph Scott as a "young man" attempts to downplay the age difference between a very young and pretty Delores Dorn, too obviously, but Scott fans probably aren't deterred.)
Everyone in town seems threatened by him - is the whole town in on this? - including a young local resident and husband and father who tries to kill him but turns out not to be one of the 3. And there is a similar encounter in his hotel room.
Bounty Hunters Not Wanted.
The local sheriff has him on short notice, and the local gambler's girlfriend tries to use her charms to learn more about him - what he knows.
He takes the daughter to church, where his true name and identity are exposed, and she decides she wants no part of him, maybe also because of her father's suspicious behavior.
The doctor tries to warn the gambler and is then shot by him!
Suspect No. 1? ... and No. 2?? ... and then the sheriff shoots the gambler who seemed ready to talk?
The town postmaster! Then tries (with a pillow) to suffocate the seriously wounded doctor in bed, and when the daughter apprehends him, he tries to strangle *her* ... and then tries to escape out of town pursued by Kipp.
And it gets believably crazier after that!
I'll let viewers find out who the 3 residing robbers are, but the denouement after the climax is pricelessly classic with a very young Fess Parker and 2 other thrill-seeking cowboys riding into town wildly shooting into the air and then learning to their SHOCK that *Jim Kipp* is there. :-)
Tragically, Delores Dorn never had children..
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