Rating: PG
Genre:
Western
Release Date: 12/01/1999
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Platinum Disc
Sam Peckinpah's first feature as director is this modest
Western, taking place in the late 1860s.
Yellowleg (
Brian Keith), a former sergeant in the Union army, is obsessed with tracking down
Turk (
Chill Wills), a Rebel army deserter who, during the War Between the States, tried to scalp him as he lay wounded on a battlefield.
Yellowleg finds
Turk and his sidekick
Billy (
Steve Cochran) in a cantina and convinces them to help him rob a bank. They journey to Gila City, where the bank is located, and find that another group of bank robbers are also in Gila City to rob the same bank. During a shoot-out with the other bank robbers,
Yellowleg accidentally kills the nine-year-old son of dance-hall hostess
Kit Tilden (
Maureen O'Hara). Remorseful at having caused the death of
Kit's son,
Yellowleg forces
Turk and
Billy to accompany him through Apache territory to bury
Kit's son at the gravesite of her husband in the ghost town of Siringo. When
Billy attacks
Kit,
Yellowleg throws him out of their camp. Then
Turk deserts. As
Kit and
Yellowleg finally reach Siringo,
Yellowleg realizes that he is in love with her. But then,
Billy and
Turk reappear, having robbed the bank in Gila City, leading to a final confrontation between
Yellowleg and
Turk.
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
