Summaries

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.

Cowboys and ranchers have to put their differences aside when a gang of outlaws, led by army captain Jack Bruhn, decide to spend the night in a little Western town.—Mattias Thuresson

In the end of the Nineteenth Century, the tough cowboy Blaise Starrett arrives in the snowing village of Bitters with his foreman Dan with the intention of killing the farmer Hal Crane using the pretext of the barbed wire he is running around his farm. However, Blaise really wants his wife Helen with whom he had a love affair. During the showdown between the cowboys and ranchers in the saloon, the violent gang of outlaws led by Captain Jack Bruhn appears out of the blue interrupting their quarrel. Jack Bruhn, who is a notorious captain of the army responsible for the massacre of a village of Mormons, disarms the men and explains that they have robbed the payment of the army and a cavalry is chasing them. He is wounded and wants to spend the night in the village and he gives his word to the locals that his gunners will not touch the women. Further he orders the barman to hide the booze from his men. When the local veterinary removes the bullet from the chest of Jack Bruhn, he realizes that he might have an internal bleeding and not survive. Blaise decides to lure the criminals and lead them in a journey with no return.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Details

Keywords
  • wild west
  • 19th century
  • wyoming
  • rancher
  • frontier town
Genres
  • Drama
  • Western
Release date Jul 18, 1959
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Approved
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Mount Bachelor, Oregon, USA
Production companies Security Pictures

Box office

Budget $400000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 32m
Color Black and White
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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