Review of Great Day in the Morning

There might be spoilers here. I am watching the movie on TCM July 30th, 2020. I love westerns. But the lead character Owen P. made the movie very distasteful (at 80 minutes of a 105 minute movie) with his ruthless selfishness. The lead character portrays an arrogant and grandstanding individual at all times (so far). His character has no redeeming qualities, and neither is there any other major character who portrays a counterpoint to Owen P. Maybe the counterpoint character emerges towards the end, if at all. Anyhow, as a western without a major character to counterpoint Owen P.'s malevolence it takes all the entertainment out of the film. I have seen bad characters who kill in westerns or even in other film genres. But with Owen P.'s character the movie is very lopsided in favour of a bad human being.