David Janssen is as taciturn as ever in a rare Western role as a Civil War veteran, hunted by the widow of a man he has killed. The supporting cast is full of quality players, including Jean Seberg, Lee J Cobb and Britain's James Booth as a flashy gambler called `King Harry' Wheeler and, as Crystal, Anne Revere, the veteran Hollywood actress who won an Academy Award as Elizabeth Taylor's mother in National Velvet. Watch also for David Carradine as a one-armed man who gets gunned down by the main character early in the picture - something of an in-joke, perhaps, in reference to Janssen's hunt for the one-armed man in the long-running television series The Fugitive. The action is bold and powerful, although spoiled at times by director Bernard Kowalski's insistence on too many angles, which also negates much of the good work done by British cameraman Gerald Fisher, here working for the first time with the interesting Colour by Movielab. He made notable photographic contributions to such British film as Accident, The Go-Between and The Amazing Mr Blunden.

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