Despite the absence of his usual star, James Stewart, this is one of Anthony Mann's best Westerns. It's a classic re-telling of the story about the inexperienced lawman helped by an older, embittered gunman. It also provided Henry Fonda with one of a series of meaty Western roles in the Fifties and Sixties. In this film, there's one stand-out scene, superbly caught in black-and-white, as the doctor's black carriage rattles back into town after he has gone missing. And the showdown climax is in the best tradition of the Western, while Anthony Perkins gives an especially sensitive performance as Fonda's very agreeable foil.


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