Rating: NR
Genre:
Western
Release Date: 05/06/2003
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Lin McAdam (
James Stewart) and his friend
High-Spade (
Millard Mitchell) arrive in Dodge City for a shooting contest, in which the prize is a perfectly manufactured Winchester repeating rifle, referred to as "One of a Thousand" -- a gun so fine that Winchester won't sell it.
Lin runs across
Dutch Henry Brown (
Stephen McNally) in a saloon and the two would kill each other right there but for the fact that town marshal
Wyatt Earp (
Will Geer) has everyone's guns.
Lin wins the rifle in an extraordinary marksmanship match-up with
Brown, but the latter steals the prize from him and sets out across the desert. Thus begins a battle of wits and nerves, and a pursuit to the death. The roots and raw psychological dimensions of that chase are only exposed gradually, across a story arc that includes references to Custer's Last Stand, run-ins with marauding Indians, a heroic stand with a a shady but well-intentioned grifter (
Charles Drake), and a meeting with murderous sociopath named
Waco Johnny Dean (
Dan Duryea), plus a romantic encounter with a young, golden-hearted frontier woman (
Shelley Winters). All of these story lines eventually get drawn together neatly and gracefully by director
Anthony Mann, who balances the violence of the events with a lyrical, almost poetic visual language.
~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
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