I always confound this Rudolph Mate's film with another one from him too: THE VIOLENT MEN, another western starring Glenn Ford and also a rancher, cattle baron topic, and a family issue scheme as in this movie. It is a good western but bringing nothing exceptional, nothing to make it a masterpiece. No surprise, just good work, and from Rudy Maté, this is not a surprise either. Anne Baxter was borrowed from Twentieth Century Fox studios for this western, so this is a surprise. The brothers feud is not that new, Forrest Tucker the predictable villain and Gilbert Roland is as usual the hero's best friend, some kind of Arthur Kennedy's syndrom. To summarize, good watchable western, but Rudy Maté made better, for instance THE VIOLENT MEN or RAWHIDE YEARS.
Review of Three Violent People
