Although not very promising on paper the presence of the names of Dudley Nichols and Delmer Daves in the credits bodes well. Combining elements of the westerns Daves was then making and his later soap operas it is an early example of a modern western which the presence of Walter Brennan as gramps could have placed at any time between the thirties and sixties.
A young Dale Robertson in one of his first leads - inevitably playing a widower - makes a rather bland hero, and Lucien Ballard's photography is far from his best, but Sol Kaplan contributes a sensitive score, the presence of a young Richard Boone promises drama, while Joanne Dru in jeans provides a worldly heroine.
A young Dale Robertson in one of his first leads - inevitably playing a widower - makes a rather bland hero, and Lucien Ballard's photography is far from his best, but Sol Kaplan contributes a sensitive score, the presence of a young Richard Boone promises drama, while Joanne Dru in jeans provides a worldly heroine.