A bank robber on the run is forced, on account of his horse's injured leg, to take refuge at a preacher's farm. Said preacher, who is married to a younger wife and has a son from a previous marriage, becomes dead set on converting his outlaw guest.
B-Western which has garnered some late respect and deals with the theme of redemption, one that is always popular among critics and cinephiles. It has a fair amount of well-staged action sequences, and a plot which does what it can to explore all its potential dramaticity, in this case availing itself of an apparently untameable horse as a metaphor for the bandit. To be blunt, the script's dramatic solutions are of the facile kind, occasionally venturing into the absurd. Even though I am naturally averse to religious propaganda, I tried in earnest to approach this film with an open mind, but it didn't fare as well in my assessment as it did in some other people's. Slightly above average for its budget range is the most I can concede to it.
Rating: 38
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