"What good is law without enforcement?"
As kids we're always told to stand up to bullies; but try putting that into practise at work with your boss! Lawyer John Payne proves similarly naïve in thinking Sterling Hayden and his brutal henchman Dick Foran will be as easily dissuaded by due process; and after 80 rather garrulous and conventional minutes this film finally makes you sit up and take notice when Payne and the rest of the townsfolk at last take the law into their own hands and fight fire with gunfire.
But did anyone ever stand trial for the accidental lynching of the newly arrived minister?
But did anyone ever stand trial for the accidental lynching of the newly arrived minister?
- richardchatten
- 12 jun 2018