Obviously a former TV product but eventually put on the big screen, as were DUEL and THE KILLERS (1964), because above average stuff. This typical early sixties western seems to belong to those which were some kind of transition between the John Ford and Han Hathaway era ( forties and fifties) and the new age, the Sam Pecinpah's or Monte Hellman's ones), and not like the Andrew McLaglen's films, made in the sixties and early seventies, and still in the fifties atmosphere. So, this very one could be compared to THE LAST CHALLENGE, with also Chad Everett and co starring this time Glenn Ford, also for MGM, another plot showing the end of the old west and old timers, but in a more interesting and bitter, darker way than this one. Here, Chad Everett is somewhere also the lead character's "sidekick ", but I expected more. That's my own opinion folks, that remains a good western, made by a director who, after a goood start - NIGHT PASSAGE - lost his way thru Disney garbage stuff, before resuming with this one.
Review of Return of the Gunfighter
