Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Richie-67-485852 This is the classic Western as it is just one of the millions of different stories of the old West but similar to all of them. You get a glimpse of the lifestyles, the risks and the rewards and yes the law was settled by gun-play until it was not. This Western has it all. Gunfights, horses, cattle, bar, whiskey, a love interest with a backstory and of course heroes and villain. Great emotional scenes that just push and pull on you too making it a must see for the viewer so you can be entertained. All the actors are at the top of their game too. Scenery is beautiful and one can easily imagine how pleasant it was to live this simple and rewarding life as the seasons changed. Nice song in the opening credits and later on too. Listen to the words for they are well chosen. Nice ending with good closure. Recommend a dinner meal with tasty drink followed by a good snack for the maximum viewing enjoyment. Saddle up, mount up, ride and then call it a night...

LeonLouisRicci A Sleeper that is one of the Better Westerns of the Fifties, an Excellent, slightly Off-Beat, and smartly Written and Directed Movie. There doesn't seem to be a bit of Filler or Padding in this sharply defined Picture. It also has an Ending that you won't see coming, although there is a Scene early on that is a foreshadow for those with a keen eye.The strong Cast is only eclipsed by Rod Serling's scathing, minimalist, Dialog Driven Script that is snappy and tough. It has a Widescreen, Colorful backdrop with unusually Authentic looking Sets and a sprawling Landscape. This is one from that Decade that was so proliferated with Westerns and just about all of them were Interchangeable. But not this one. Along with likes of Boetticher and Mann, this one belongs.If you need Name Dropping, aside from Serling, there is the fine, sometimes Cynical Director Robert Parrish, Pretty Songbird Julie London, Streetwise smoothie John Cassavetes as an Angst driven Hot-Head, Robert Taylor (never better), reliable Staff such as Donald Crisp, and Charles Mcgraw (with a great show starter Scene), and Roy Dano in a touching, heart wrenching significant Role. A must for any Western Fan and for those who wander in the Genre looking for the Best.

MartinHafer The casting in this film is mighty strange. The idea of John Cassavetes and Robert Taylor playing brothers just didn't seem right. Part of this was their styles of acting, part of it was because they looked nothing like each other and was they the difference in their ages was 18 years--old enough that perhaps Cassavetes would have been better cast as Taylor's son! But, as Taylor was a big-name actor, there was no way that MGM would cast the younger actor as his son.The film begins with the younger brother (Cassavetes) coming home with a woman (Julie London). They are planning on marrying and oddly Taylor doesn't do a lot to make her feel welcome. Later, when Cassavetes and London go into town, a pivotal moment arrives. A gunslinger is looking for Taylor, as years before, Taylor had been a gunman but had retired. It seemed that this gunslinger (played menacingly by Charles McGraw) is looking for a fight--and Cassavetes is more than willing to oblige. When Cassavetes manages to beat the guy to the draw, it was a fluke...but now there was a HUGE change in him. Now Cassavetes was a strutting and obnoxious moron--intent on proving to everyone that he is now a big man! And, in the process, London has come to realize that he's not the man she'd hoped to marry.A bit later, some squatters begin farming on land that everyone was assumed was going to stay open range. Taylor tries to get them to leave with no success. However, when Cassavetes and his no-good friend later come upon these same folks, because they were now drunk on alcohol and power, they bully these people and might have killed them had it not been for Taylor's return. In the process, it seems that the bond between brothers is broken--as Cassavetes is too ill-tempered and obnoxious to take Taylor's intervention as anything other than a grave insult. The pip-squeak little brother was not about to just accept this and the viewer KNOWS that a much more deadly showdown is brewing.While many elements of the film are quite familiar (and reminiscent of such films as "Night Passage") and the casting was very strange, this was still a good and successful western. Most of it was because the script was well-written despite its clichés (in the west, there really were very, very few gunslingers, for example) and the acting very nice. Not a great film but one worth your time.

alexandre michel liberman (tmwest) The method acting of the fifties has become very outdated, you have the feeling they are overacting. Considering this, it is great to see an actor like John Cassavetes giving such a "method" performance and coming out so well, Tony Sinclair seems like a very true character. Robert Taylor was a familiar face in westerns, but as he got older, he became more physically suited for the role. Here he is at his best. Julie London was more of a singer than an actress, but she is great as Joan, the woman who hangs on to a crazy Tony in a desperate attempt to change her life. The script, by Rod Serling is good, but something is missing. It is too much like a TV movie, it seems too short. With such good actors you expect something more substantial. It is nice to hear Julie singing "Saddle the Wind".