Complete credited cast: | |||
Randolph Scott | ... | Tom Buchanan | |
Craig Stevens | ... | Abe Carbo | |
Barry Kelley | ... | Lew Agry | |
Tol Avery | ... | Judge Simon Agry | |
Peter Whitney | ... | Amos Agry | |
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Manuel Rojas | ... | Juan de la Vega |
L.Q. Jones | ... | Pecos Hill | |
Robert Anderson | ... | Waldo Peck | |
Joe De Santis | ... | Esteban Gomez | |
William Leslie | ... | Roy Agry | |
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Jennifer Holden | ... | K.T. |
Nacho Galindo | ... | Nacho |
On his way home to West Texas, Tom Buchanan rides into the Californian border town of Agry, and into a feud between several members of the Agry family. In helping out a Mexican seeking revenge on one of them, Buchanan finds himself against the whole family. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Excellent and funny story of Agry-town, a place where everything costs ten dollars and a man can be hung for being on the right side of a fight -- but the wrong side of the law. Hypocrisy and the essential weakness of human nature are humorously juxtaposed with Scott and his friends' hardboiled masculine ethic. Only the ending is a disappointment -- rushed and somewhat confused. Lang's writing is good and very barbed but somewhat predictable as the famous Ranown cycle winds down with this film.
The Pacific Film Archive here in Berkeley CA has been showing these films for the last few years, and in 2000 I and my mother had the chance to meet the director, the very charming, funny, and intelligent Bud Boetticher, and also the people who are restoring these movies for Columbia. They're doing a wonderful job, and hopefully soon we'll all be able to enjoy restored, less yellowed prints of these classic films (especially the incredible "Seven Men from Now") on DVD. Put any pressure you can on Columbia, folks, let them know you want to see these films on DVD, because the restoration is already well underway -- we just need to let them know there's an audience out there!