Un marshal tente de traduire en justice le fils d'un vieil ami, un baron autocratique du bétail, pour sa participation dans le viol et le meurtre de sa femme amérindienne.Un marshal tente de traduire en justice le fils d'un vieil ami, un baron autocratique du bétail, pour sa participation dans le viol et le meurtre de sa femme amérindienne.Un marshal tente de traduire en justice le fils d'un vieil ami, un baron autocratique du bétail, pour sa participation dans le viol et le meurtre de sa femme amérindienne.
- Récompenses
- 1 nomination au total
- Lee Smithers
- (as Brian Hutton)
- Craig's Man
- (non crédité)
- Salesman in Horseshoe
- (non crédité)
- Townsman
- (non crédité)
- Townsmen
- (non crédité)
- Cowboy
- (non crédité)
- Barfly
- (non crédité)
- Small Man in Horseshoe
- (non crédité)
- Townsman
- (non crédité)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesDuring the final shootout, Morgan was supposed to beat Smithers to the draw. However, the actor playing Smithers, Brian G. Hutton kept beating Douglas to the draw. Finally it was decided that Kirk Douglas should be holding a shotgun thereby ending that argument. Afterwards Douglas remarked "Can you imagine that upstart beating me to the draw?" Anthony Quinn said, "Don't worry about it, Kirk. We'll get him in the editing room."
- GaffesOn its way to Gun Hill, the train has four cars. By the time it reaches the station, there are only two, and the baggage car is a different one than before.
- Citations
Rick Belden, Craig's Son: Don't take no guts to kill a man when he's cuffed!
Marshal Matt Morgan: Takes guts not to. Be too easy on ya. You'd die too quick. I know an old man who'd like to kill you, Belden - the Indian way: slow. That's how I'm gonna do it: slow - but the white man's way. First you stand trial. That takes a fair amount of time, and you'll do a lot of sweating! Then they'll sentence ya. I never seen a man who didn't get sick to his stomach when he heard the kind of sentence you'll draw. After that you'll sit in a cell and wait, maybe for months, thinking how that rope will feel around your neck. Then they'll come around, some cold morning, just before sun-up. They'll tie your arms behind you. You'll start blubbering, kicking, yelling for help. But it won't do you any good. They'll drag you out in the yard, heave you up on that platform, fix that rope around your neck and leave you out there all alone with a big black hood over your eyes. You know the last sound you hear? Kind of a thump when they kick the trapdoor catch - and down you go. You'll hit the end of that rope like a sack of potatoes, all dead weight. It'll be white hot around your neck and your Adam's Apple will turn to mush. You'll fight for your breath, but you haven't got any breath. Your brain will begin to boil. You'll scream and holler! But nobody'll hear you. You'll hear it. But nobody else. Finally you're just swingin' there - all alone and dead.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Le livre d'image (2018)
Kirk Douglas is outstanding as the uncompromising sheriff on a mission of revenge when his Native American wife is killed by the spoiled son of a lifelong friend. Anthony Quinn is excellent as the hardbitten rancher who respects Douglas' character more than anybody (and whose life he saved in their youth), but who behaves one as a protective father, and two as a man who is rich and powerful, and used to getting what he wants. Carolyn Jones is also great as a woman caught in the middle of the two men.
No cop-outs, no easily resolutions. Just a great movie with a great cast.
- terenceallen
- 23 juin 2004
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Détails
Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 2 500 000 $US
- Durée1 heure 35 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1