This is another case of a remake being a pale shadow of the original. The 1931 version had a huge budget, thousands of extras and won a trio of Oscars and although it looks a bit dated now, it's still a better film than this one. Set around the time of the Oklahoma land rush, the newer version stars Glenn Ford as the homesteader who, cheated out of his land, becomes sheriff of a new town and also runs the local newspaper. Despite a strong cast that includes Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Russ Tamblyn and Vic Morrow and direction from Anthony Mann, this is a formula cowboy film that does little justice to the original novel. It offers no threat to its Oscar-winning predecessor and ended Mann's 10-year love affair with the American West.

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