... the new Sheriff, the one that defeated Stride for the job in the last election? Seems like with the murder of a woman and a $20,000 robbery he'd be out with a posse.... ya know?
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I love the movie anyway. Just a solid, compact, traditional western...
"It's just a movie" is no excuse for treating us like idiots!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwRqc0KSkJ0
You're not supposed to ask questions like that!!
share Gail Russell was awful,poorly cast......and all the attention,for what?
A more talented actress should have had the part.
I did not care for the promiscuity of Mrs.Greer....uncalled for in any Western...she caused Mr Greer to commit suicide plain and simple.
There are many women in real life who are lowlifes and I would bet that they
learned of this via the Hollyweird films that have set America on it's proverbial ear morally.
2014 and the family unit has been deliberately been ruined by the MGM's and so forth.
There's a famous John Ford story. When asked why the Indians didn't just shoot the horses carrying the STAGECOACH (1939), Ford replied, "Because then the movie would have been over after 20 minutes."
Where was the sheriff in Casa Whatever? Didn't he hear the hubby get gun down by Bodeen?
In the version I saw, a figure burst out of the sheriff's office after Bodeen had shot "hubby" in the back. This was the one scene that jarred a little, as there were plenty of witnesses to such a cold-blooded murder.
shareWhere the heck was the new sheriff ... ?
Um, jurisdictional problems, maybe. Small town sheriff keeps peace in the town, but when the miscreants escape out into the territory, his options are limited.
Of course, for all we know, he *is* out with a posse. There was a lot of empty territory for him to get lost in.
"Um, jurisdictional problems, maybe. Small town sheriff keeps peace in the town, but when the miscreants escape out into the territory, his options are limited."
If he is a sheriff, he has jurisdiction over an entire county, not just the town. (Despite the long-standing confusion about this subject in decades of westerns: "I'm sheriff of this town;" or town marshals leading posses outside the town.) Of course we don't know where in relation to the county line the showdown place is; and we don't know if that guy coming out of the sheriff's office was the sheriff. I just figured if the sheriff was around (even if in the outhouse when the shooting took place), he did go after the killer, and maybe he got there soon after the final shoot-out. (SPOILER) He would have helped the wounded Stride get back to town with the Wells-Fargo box.
Um, jurisdictional problems, maybe. Small town sheriff keeps peace in the town, but when the miscreants escape out into the territory, his options are limited.
The old sheriff might have been a better tracker too. He was certainly more motivated to find the killers of his wife. Also the new sheriff might of had trouble trying to convince his posse to go tracking a trail though Indian land when the same Indians were stirred up and on the warpath.
SPOILER WARNING
The new sheriff must have been a good one and probably they were out of his county jurisdiction. He did offer Scott a job as deputy which Scott admitted he didn't take because of pride making his wife have to support him. Plus at the end he was returning to his town to accept the job as deputy.
where does Randolph Scott get the wardrobe of neat, pressed clothes that he keeps changing??
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