8/10
Little Known B-Western...Talent Behind the Camera
9 February 2022
Absent the Budget of Big-Studio, the Western Genre was so Popular that the B-Film-Makers got a Lot of Mileage out of the Road that was Well Traveled and Occasionally Everything Clicked.

Sometimes Guided by a Serious Talented Director Riding the Gene for All its Worth.

Gerard Oswald, using the 8-Time Oscar Nominated Director of Cinematography Joseph Lashelle to Ultra-Craft the Shots with Emphasis of Subtle Arrangements, Keeping Within Budget,and Provides the "Ambience" and Look of Sleek Understatement.

This One has Disappeared Under the Radar of the Main Streams Western Entertainment Extravaganza of the Decade.

The Only Competition of the Western-Genre in the 1950's, to Dominate the Pop-Culture was it's Cousin-Genre "Science-Fiction ''.

Dominate it Certainly Did.

Relying of the Fact that the "Western-Movies" and TV were usually Cheaper by Nature than Sci-Fi.

This is a Movie Lost in Time and is in the Periphery just Waiting to be Discovered by Eager and Insatiable Purveyors of Pictures always on the Lookout for Another Discovery.

Here is a Film that Can Compete with Others for Attention that it Deserves.

Also the Tragic and Odd Nick Adams with a Co-Star, the Impossibly Handsome John Derick Struggling to Enter the Leading Man Hierarchy is Competent as Always.

The High-Light is a Bar-Room-Fight that is just Sublime, that Ends with a the Villain "Dragged Across Dirt",

That Scene is a Wow.
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