Description:Ex-sheriff Ben Stride tracks the seven men who held up a Wells Fargo office and killed his wife. Stride is tormented by the fact that his own failure to keep his job was the cause of his wife's working in the express office and thus he is partly responsible for her death. Stride encounters a married couple heading west for California Ex-sheriff Ben Stride tracks the seven men who held up a Wells Fargo office and killed his wife. Stride is tormented by the fact that his own failure to keep his job was the cause of his wife's working in the express office and thus he is partly responsible for her death. Stride encounters a married couple heading west for California and helps them. Along the way they are joined by two n'er-do-wells, Masters and Clete, who know that Stride is after the express-office robbers. They plan to let Stride lead them to the bandits, then make away with the loot themselves. But they aren't the only ones carrying a secret.... (more)(less)
"Budd Boetticher's underrated and somewhat forgotten masterpiece. Existentialistic western, where both Randolph Scott and Lee Marvin do the roles of their careers."
"Randolph Scottin fania meikäläisestä ei varmasti tule vielä pitkiin aikoihin mutta Scottin ja erityisesti Lee Marvinin hahmoihin on saatu yllättävän paljon syvyyttä ja näiden hahmojen välisen skisman seuraaminen onkin leffan parasta antia. Kestoltaan juurikin optimi eikä sisällä juurikaan tyhjäkäyntiä."
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