Clay Lomax, a bank robber, gets out of jail after an 7 year sentence. He is looking after Sam Foley, the man who betrayed him. Knowing that, Foley hires three men to pay attention of Clay's steps. The things get complicated when Lomax, waiting to receive some money from his ex-lover, gets only the notice of her death and an 7 year old girl, sometimes very annoying, presumed to be his daughter.
Acting
Peck's weary gravitas anchors every scene he's in.
Direction
Hathaway's final Western — elegiac, unhurried, surprisingly tender.
Director
Henry Hathaway
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Henry Hathaway directed his first Western in 1932 and his last here — nearly 40 years bookending the genre.
Based on Will James's novel 'The Lone Cowboy,' but Hathaway pushed the father-daughter dynamic to soften Peck's typical heroism.
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