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Predictable plot, with lead female(Shirley MacLaine) initially hating the unbelievably brash newcomer to town(Glen Ford, as Jason Sweet), who wants to stir up a hornet's nest by bringing his sheep into this frontier cattle-dominated territory. We soon learn that Sweet has a past with cattle baron Stephen Bedford(Leslie Neilson), in which neither showed up for a scheduled shootout in Texas. Gradually, Sweet wins over a few town folk, including MacLaine, Edgar Buchanan's character and a group of kids, who help him in his struggle to avoid obliteration from the henchmen of Bedford. At the end, the film confirms what we may have already suspected: that Ford's character isn't really a dyed-in-the wool sheepman who's thumbing his nose at cattlemen. Rather this becomes a ruse to settle an old score with Bedford by hopefully provoking a showdown, after which Sweet will take the place of Bedford as 'the big man' of this cattle country, as well as stealing MacLaine as his sweetheart. Ford has a fun role as a man who backs up his extreme bravado with superior manly skills of the times, always coming out the winner. A fun,if predictable, film.
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weezeralfalfa 10 August 2011
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