nice elegiacal western

Author: fcasnette from United Kingdom
12 January 2006

just caught this thoughtful film on TV again.not a particular Mitchum fan, but here he is gives a wonderful world weary performance as the "outside man" gradually learning kindness and companionship and friendship against the odds of his upbringing and circumstances and the hand that fate has dealt him.

Not a particular shoot em up type western but a film about belonging and extricating yourself from a bad lot when down a blind alley. Just watch as he reacts to the little kindnesses as he recovers from his injury or the final scene with his beloved horse, lovely low key acting.Beautiful photography too. Passes a lazy afternoon very nicely.