Il maresciallo Jake Wade aiuta il fuorilegge Clint Hollister a fuggire dalla prigione, ma Clint vuole sapere dove Wade ha nascosto un vecchio bottino rapinato mentre entrambi gli uomini eran... Leggi tuttoIl maresciallo Jake Wade aiuta il fuorilegge Clint Hollister a fuggire dalla prigione, ma Clint vuole sapere dove Wade ha nascosto un vecchio bottino rapinato mentre entrambi gli uomini erano fuorilegge nella stessa banda.Il maresciallo Jake Wade aiuta il fuorilegge Clint Hollister a fuggire dalla prigione, ma Clint vuole sapere dove Wade ha nascosto un vecchio bottino rapinato mentre entrambi gli uomini erano fuorilegge nella stessa banda.
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- Sceneggiatura
- Star
- Wexler
- (as De Forest Kelley)
- Minor Role
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- Luke
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- Minor Role
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- Deputy
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- Soldier
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- Cavalry Sergeant
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Recensioni in evidenza
It's a good if not great western. Robert Taylor is on the decline and he's a diminishing leading man. This one is all Richard Widmark. He is chewing up the movie the whole way through. He has all the swagger in the world. This has a fight with Indians. There is final shootout between the two leads in an abandoned town. It's all here.
Here the problem is a debt owed or at least that's what Marshal Jake Wade feels towards Clint Hollister. Before Jake broke with the Hollister, it seems that Hollister saved him from a hangman's noose back when he ran with Hollister's gang. Jake hears about Hollister being arrested and sentenced to be hanged so he rides a piece and breaks him from jail.
That squares it as far as the Marshal is concerned, but the outlaw leader has other ideas. Seems Jake ran off with the proceeds from the last job. No good deed goes unpunished in this life. Hollister re-unites with his gang and they kidnap the Marshal and his fiancée and force him to lead them to the money.
You have to watch the film for the rest of this. If you're any kind of a fan of westerns, I think you'll know how this turns out.
Robert Taylor plays the upright Marshal Jake Wade who could have let the whole thing slide and let outlaw Richard Widmark hang, but he feels a debt. It's a good part for Taylor as he was winding down his contract at MGM. Unfortunately Taylor doesn't figure that Widmark owed him something for running off with the loot. The two leads play well off each other.
Rounding out the cast is Patricia Owens who is your typical crinoline western woman and the rest of Widmark's gang which included DeForest Kelley, Robert Middleton, and Henry Silva among others.
Nice Saturday afternoon fare for all fans of the American western, like me.
Lo sapevi?
- QuizIt looks like Richard Widmark is riding Pie, James Stewart's favorite horse.
- BlooperAt the beginning, when Marshall Wade comes into town leading an extra horse, he throws that horse's rein onto the hitching post rail, and it drops right off. As he steps down from his horse, the other horse's rein is now tightly wound around the rail.
- Citazioni
Jake Wade: So tell me, Clint, if things had worked out differently - were you gonna give me a gun, or shoot me in the back?
Clint Hollister: [pause] I was gonna give you a gun.
Jake Wade: [flinging a handgun some distance away] There's your gun.
Clint Hollister: I was gonna hand you yours!
Jake Wade: Well, you like me better than I like you.
- ConnessioniReferenced in Il molto onorevole ministro (1961)
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Dettagli
- Data di uscita
- Paese di origine
- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- El tesoro del ahorcado
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, Stati Uniti(location exteriors)
- Azienda produttrice
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Botteghino
- Budget
- 1.538.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione
- 1h 26min(86 min)
- Proporzioni
- 2.35 : 1