IMDb
6.9 /10
2k votes


Western · 1956 · 1h 34min
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
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20th Century FoxAvailable in United States (data from JustWatch via TMDB · click → opens in provider)
IMDb
6.9 /10
2k votes
Rotten Tomatoes
50 /100
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Metacritic took the day off
TMDB
6.5 /10
37 votes
Letterboxd
6.9 /10
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Weighted average
6.3/10