The Tin Star (1957)
Country: US
Technical: bw/Vistavision 93m
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, John McIntire
Synopsis:
A former sheriff turned bounty hunter teaches the ropes to a callow young lawman, and is drawn back to civilization by a widow and her halfbreed son.
Review:
Good, standard Western, with elements of High Noon in its beleaguered sheriff and his 'agin' fiancée, and a classic turn from Fonda as the grizzled, cynical mentor who has seen it all before. The widow and he are kin in as much as both are treated with utter contempt by the townsfolk, whose hypocrisy is revealed in the lynch mob last act, and perhaps too quickly forgotten. Still, this makes for a nice advance on the Stewart Westerns, which show little concern for Indian relations in their more obsessive plot trajectories, and a more mildly conflicted hero here suits the star's persona.
Country: US
Technical: bw/Vistavision 93m
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, John McIntire
Synopsis:
A former sheriff turned bounty hunter teaches the ropes to a callow young lawman, and is drawn back to civilization by a widow and her halfbreed son.
Review:
Good, standard Western, with elements of High Noon in its beleaguered sheriff and his 'agin' fiancée, and a classic turn from Fonda as the grizzled, cynical mentor who has seen it all before. The widow and he are kin in as much as both are treated with utter contempt by the townsfolk, whose hypocrisy is revealed in the lynch mob last act, and perhaps too quickly forgotten. Still, this makes for a nice advance on the Stewart Westerns, which show little concern for Indian relations in their more obsessive plot trajectories, and a more mildly conflicted hero here suits the star's persona.
Country: US
Technical: bw/Vistavision 93m
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, John McIntire
Synopsis:
A former sheriff turned bounty hunter teaches the ropes to a callow young lawman, and is drawn back to civilization by a widow and her halfbreed son.
Review:
Good, standard Western, with elements of High Noon in its beleaguered sheriff and his 'agin' fiancée, and a classic turn from Fonda as the grizzled, cynical mentor who has seen it all before. The widow and he are kin in as much as both are treated with utter contempt by the townsfolk, whose hypocrisy is revealed in the lynch mob last act, and perhaps too quickly forgotten. Still, this makes for a nice advance on the Stewart Westerns, which show little concern for Indian relations in their more obsessive plot trajectories, and a more mildly conflicted hero here suits the star's persona.