A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gang holding him hostage will kill him.A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gang holding him hostage will kill him.A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gang holding him hostage will kill him.
E.J. André
- Station Master
- (uncredited)
Gordon Armitage
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Eumenio Blanco
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Bill Coontz
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaProducer Gordon Kay shot the film in black and white, to save money, which infuriated Murphy but the movie earned about the same as other Murphy films of the era.
- GoofsLeft behind when a gang steal saddleless horses Chris and Burt make their getaway on the two remaining horses and later while taking a breather are found by two of the gang who take them to a small ranch where the rest of the gang are hiding. The following morning when every on leaves all the horses are saddled.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Great Train Robbery: A Copper's Tale (2013)
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Western Noir Gem
"Neither one of you can make it alone....
maybe together you might make one good man...
pull you apart ...it's like an oyster.....
You're a couple of shells sharing one set of guts"
Things turn bad for a couple of drifting cowboys when they go into town to cash their pay.....real,real bad.
Excellent hard boiled Noir tale of the drifting cowboy hard luck trail with a very sinister edge. Some great massive landscapes position the claustrophobic anxiety and ultimate insignificance and futility of this nasty human story.
Audie gives one of his strongest performances and delivers some excellent patois dialogue full of cowboy logic and figuring. Chas Drake is great as the weak willed problem gambling pard.
Harold J stone is frightening and relentless as gang boss LaSalle and Skip Homier, is very disturbing as one of the stupid sadist henchman.
Strother Martin gives an excellent performance as pathetic town drunk Charlie Reeder and the scenes with his hard talking children are disturbingly frank.
Kathleen Crowley proves to be an excellent casting choice as pathetic ruined Estelle.
This is my favorite Audie Murphy western and I think one of his best films.
Things turn bad for a couple of drifting cowboys when they go into town to cash their pay.....real,real bad.
Excellent hard boiled Noir tale of the drifting cowboy hard luck trail with a very sinister edge. Some great massive landscapes position the claustrophobic anxiety and ultimate insignificance and futility of this nasty human story.
Audie gives one of his strongest performances and delivers some excellent patois dialogue full of cowboy logic and figuring. Chas Drake is great as the weak willed problem gambling pard.
Harold J stone is frightening and relentless as gang boss LaSalle and Skip Homier, is very disturbing as one of the stupid sadist henchman.
Strother Martin gives an excellent performance as pathetic town drunk Charlie Reeder and the scenes with his hard talking children are disturbingly frank.
Kathleen Crowley proves to be an excellent casting choice as pathetic ruined Estelle.
This is my favorite Audie Murphy western and I think one of his best films.
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- Oct 16, 2020
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- Budget
- $500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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