First, I watched this movie for the third time in twenty years in f...pand and scan; and believe me, nothing is worst than this pure torture. Nothing. So this James B Clark's film is not the most memorable from him, I highly prefer the terrific ONE FOOT IN HELL or even THE BIG SHOW, a pretty little curiosity - which I have in in LBX in my library. So this story is so predictable, in a scheme so much overused that I hardly search the least interest in it. I can save Brian Keith's character, whom I expected a bit more ambivalent. A hired gunslinger character showed as a kind of hero may be interesting sometimes. Rememebr Robert Taylor in John Farrow's VAQUERO, to whom Keith's character is rather close to. So, the scenery, locations, settings, are pretty fine, the overall atmosphere too, but that's not the most memorable western ever. It is however watchable, never boring, a good time waster. Excellent moving, poignant last minute.