Unlike the typical Wallace Beery character, who is bad but good down deep, this incarnation is amazingly evil and actually murders several people in the course of this movie! He truly IS the BAD man of Brimstone!!
When the film begins, Jeff (Dennis O'Keefe) is headed west in a stagecoach. It's held up and the masked bandit (Wallace Beery) knocks him out and steals his watch. Later, Beery looks inside the pocket watch and sees a photo....and realizes the person he knocked out is his son he'd deserted long, long ago! When Jeff is made a deputy in order to collect taxes, Bill decides to help him...and apparently Bill is NOT good at being good! What's next? See the film.
So is this more violent and nasty version of Wallace Beery and this film worth seeing? Yes. It's got an exciting finale and O'Keefe is quite good. Overall, not a great film but one that is enjoyable despite its flaws.
When the film begins, Jeff (Dennis O'Keefe) is headed west in a stagecoach. It's held up and the masked bandit (Wallace Beery) knocks him out and steals his watch. Later, Beery looks inside the pocket watch and sees a photo....and realizes the person he knocked out is his son he'd deserted long, long ago! When Jeff is made a deputy in order to collect taxes, Bill decides to help him...and apparently Bill is NOT good at being good! What's next? See the film.
So is this more violent and nasty version of Wallace Beery and this film worth seeing? Yes. It's got an exciting finale and O'Keefe is quite good. Overall, not a great film but one that is enjoyable despite its flaws.