Marshal Jake Wade aids outlaw Clint Hollister escape jail but Clint wants to know where Wade hid an old hold-up loot taken while both men were outlaws in the same gang.Marshal Jake Wade aids outlaw Clint Hollister escape jail but Clint wants to know where Wade hid an old hold-up loot taken while both men were outlaws in the same gang.Marshal Jake Wade aids outlaw Clint Hollister escape jail but Clint wants to know where Wade hid an old hold-up loot taken while both men were outlaws in the same gang.
- Wexler
- (as De Forest Kelley)
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
- Luke
- (uncredited)
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
- Deputy
- (uncredited)
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
- Soldier
- (uncredited)
- Cavalry Sergeant
- (uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe film was shot on location in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, Lone Pine and Death Valley.
- GoofsWhen Marshall Wade comes into town near the start of the movie leading an extra horse, he throws that horse's rein up against a rail and it drops right off. As he steps down from his horse, the other horse's rein is now tightly wound around the rail.
- Quotes
Peggy Carter: Your father was a preacher?
Rennie: Kind of a phony evangelist. I tell ya, he was about the meanest man I've ever met in my life. He just naturally liked to beat up on anything that was smaller than him. And of course, he could always say he was beating the fear of God into ya.
Peggy Carter: Well, where is he now?
Rennie: Well, I, ah, well I hope I know where he is. He was the first man I ever killed.
- ConnectionsReferenced in A Majority of One (1961)
Here the problem is a debt owed or at least that's what Marshal Jake Wade feels towards Clint Hollister. Before Jake broke with the Hollister, it seems that Hollister saved him from a hangman's noose back when he ran with Hollister's gang. Jake hears about Hollister being arrested and sentenced to be hanged so he rides a piece and breaks him from jail.
That squares it as far as the Marshal is concerned, but the outlaw leader has other ideas. Seems Jake ran off with the proceeds from the last job. No good deed goes unpunished in this life. Hollister re-unites with his gang and they kidnap the Marshal and his fiancée and force him to lead them to the money.
You have to watch the film for the rest of this. If you're any kind of a fan of westerns, I think you'll know how this turns out.
Robert Taylor plays the upright Marshal Jake Wade who could have let the whole thing slide and let outlaw Richard Widmark hang, but he feels a debt. It's a good part for Taylor as he was winding down his contract at MGM. Unfortunately Taylor doesn't figure that Widmark owed him something for running off with the loot. The two leads play well off each other.
Rounding out the cast is Patricia Owens who is your typical crinoline western woman and the rest of Widmark's gang which included DeForest Kelley, Robert Middleton, and Henry Silva among others.
Nice Saturday afternoon fare for all fans of the American western, like me.
- bkoganbing
- Feb 19, 2005
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- Also known as
- Zakon prerije
- Filming locations
- Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA(location exteriors)
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- Budget
- $1,538,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1