In a frontier town, gunslinger-turned-preacher Jim Killian is caught in the middle of a violent range war between cattlemen and sheep-men.In a frontier town, gunslinger-turned-preacher Jim Killian is caught in the middle of a violent range war between cattlemen and sheep-men.In a frontier town, gunslinger-turned-preacher Jim Killian is caught in the middle of a violent range war between cattlemen and sheep-men.
- Bart Paterson
- (as Bill Bryant)
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- TriviaThis was originally announced in the mid fifties as a starring vehicle for Gregory Peck.
- GoofsWhen Leloopa's "dead" father is cut down from the hanging by Jim Killian, he is clearly seen breathing while lying on the ground.
- Quotes
Jim Killian: Madge, is there a doctor in this town?
Madge McCloud: One of the best.
Jim Killian: Fine, alright I'll repeat; I'm you're preacher. I will protect anyone who comes around this church. I'd try to understand that, if I were you.
[exchange of gunfire]
Jim Killian: Well, you'd better get a doctor, Madge. And the rest of you, there'll be no killing around this church unless I do the killing. Amen.
- Alternate versionsTV-PG rating shown on broadcast channels is moderated for content, especially female nudity and sexual. The rape scene is entirely cut out. No prostitute is shown in bed with customer. The outdoor female nudity scene is eliminated.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Dad Made Dirty Movies (2011)
From the distance of 2010, 60s cultural interest is raised by the film's brief, gratuitous, and confusing nudity, as well as Barbara Hershey's hippie depiction of a half-Hopi girl, but the biggest surprise may be that this otherwise predictable western was produced as late as 1969. Except for those 60s flashes, I could imagine my parents and their siblings enjoying something similar in 1955, while I would have wished for a hero less earnest and boring than Ford.
Among the film's skewed lines, the oddest may be that the sheep-herder side of the range war is first identified with American Indians but is then shifted to a polygamous Mormon. I'd like to go back to 1969 and be 18 again, but no wonder I felt confused.
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- Sep 28, 2010
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- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1