Rating: NR
Genre:
Western
Release Date: 05/13/2008
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol/French
Sound: DD1/DD2
Run Time: 81 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: United Artists
With
Gene Barry already riding the video range as legendary gunfighter-turned-lawman
Bat Masterson, independent producer
Walter Mirisch hired old-timer
Joel McCrea to play a rather less-dandified version in this routine
Western released in
Cinemascope. When his brother
Ed (
Harry Lauter) is cowardly shot in the back and killed,
Bat accepts to run for county sheriff against the corrupt
Jim Regan (
Don Haggerty), only to learn that the real killer is someone entirely different. Not wanting the job of sheriff in the first place but only accepting to please a lady friend, the pious
Pauline Howard (
Julie Adams),
Bat willingly breaks the law to aid an old friend (
Walter Coy), almost losing both his position and his life in the ensuing shootout.
~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide