Summaries

Harry returns home to his wife and farm after drifting with his friend Arch and has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties.

Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and soon believes that all will be well again. But then Harry has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties and priorities.—Steve Harkins <[email protected]>

Roaming from town to town, Harry Collings and his best friend, Arch Harris, are two weary wanderers tired of drifting off to a meaningless life, after seven years in the wilderness of the Wild West. Inevitably, knowing that there is nothing left for him but to return home, Harry feels the urgent need to reconnect with his alienated wife he abandoned when he was still a beardless youth and embrace once more his little daughter who believes her father is dead. Hesitantly, the estranged and embittered wife will take Collings back as a hired hand on her farm, however, the past, in the person of the villainous McVey threatens to catch up with him. Is Harry's fate inescapable?—Nick Riganas

Details

Keywords
  • revisionist western
  • old west
  • best friend
  • death of protagonist
  • farm
Genres
  • Drama
  • Western
Release date Jul 16, 1971
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, USA
Production companies Universal Pictures Pando Company Inc.

Box office

Budget $820000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 30m
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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