Charlton Heston is excellent as a middle-aged cowboy offered a rewarding but dangerous new life with a frontier widow and her son in this gritty, impressive Western. Joan Hackett as the widow forms a strong axis for the action in a touching and warm relationship with Heston, while Donald Pleasence is memorably over the top as a psychotic preacher who darkens their happiness. The fight scenes are red-blooded and raw but the ending is misty-eyed.

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