Gregory Peck has just gotten out of prison and is traveling, looking for something or some one. Meanwhile, James Gregory sends vicious, stupid gun man Robert Lyons to trail him and report back, but not kill him under any circumstances. Meanwhile, Peck gets notice to pick up up a package, which turns out to be a little girl whom he believes is his daughter.
It plays with the western themes of the beauties of nature versus the ugliness of people and their actions. Cinematographer Earl Rath (whose IMDb entry is in awful shape as to credits, and who seems to be alive at the age of 117 as I write this; other sources indicate he was teaching at USC at least as recently as 2002) shoots the mountain country of New Mexico as it fades from fall to winter in a bright, soft light. Henry Hathaway, long a specialist in A Westerns offers a violent, stupid west, where the only defense against evil is a bank robber. Even if it's Gregory "Atticus Finch" Peck, I'm not sure how I feel about that.
It plays with the western themes of the beauties of nature versus the ugliness of people and their actions. Cinematographer Earl Rath (whose IMDb entry is in awful shape as to credits, and who seems to be alive at the age of 117 as I write this; other sources indicate he was teaching at USC at least as recently as 2002) shoots the mountain country of New Mexico as it fades from fall to winter in a bright, soft light. Henry Hathaway, long a specialist in A Westerns offers a violent, stupid west, where the only defense against evil is a bank robber. Even if it's Gregory "Atticus Finch" Peck, I'm not sure how I feel about that.