A white man trades with the Comanche for the release of a female stranger and the pair cross paths with three outlaws who have their eyes on the handsome reward for bringing her home and Comanche on the warpath.
Direction
Boetticher's brutal economy—no shot wasted, no mercy given.
Acting
Scott's granite face says everything the script doesn't.
Director
Budd Boetticher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Boetticher shot this in just 12 days on the same Lone Pine locations as his other Scott collaborations.
The 'Ranown Cycle' perfected the 'floating poker game' western—strangers forced together, motives slowly revealed.
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