This fine Western is based on a little-known incident of the Civil War. Boehm's screenplay features Heflin as the Confederate officer who, after escaping to Canada from a Union prison camp with several of his men, plans to take over and sack a town just across the Canadian border in retribution for Northern Raids into the South. Marvin is the fiery officer who nearly gives the game away, Boone the one-armed Union veteran and Bancroft the war widow Heflin boards with while studying the lay-out of the town. Fregonese directs suspenseful, much aided by Ballard's brooding cinematography.
Phil Hardy
Phil Hardy