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Director: Henry Hathaway
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From Time Out Film Guide
A card-sharp caught palming an ace is lynched by six of the seven men he was playing poker with (Martin protests in vain); and panic spreads through the small Colorado town as the lynchers begin to die one by one, killed in gruesome parodies of the hanging. Hathaway directs this Western Ten Little Indians with a sort of weary authority, alternating patches of boredom with fresh, striking detail. What chiefly keeps it afloat is the excellent cast, headed by Martin as the gambler who turns Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery, and Mitchum - in a variation on his performance in Night of the Hunter - as the mysterious hellfire preacher who rides into town with a secret and a faster draw than anyone else.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Henry Hathaway
Producer: Hal B Wallis
Cast: Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Roddy McDowall, Inger Stevens, Katherine Justice, John Anderson, Yaphet Kotto, Denver Pyle full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 103 mins
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