Excellent lesson of morale from this western starred by Gregory Peck, who is like a lone ranger trying to kill the supposedly four men who killed his wife. He came from far village to see the execution of these four men by the law, but these were able to get away from the justice. At this point skilled Jim Douglas (Peck) decided to go behind them to make justice by himself. He first killed merciless two of them organizing tricky ambushes, and the third one in the Mexican territory. In all cases Douglas showed the photo of his wife and the bandits always denied they knew her or did anything wrong against her. When these bandits were running away, they arrived in a house of a miner, who was the neighbor of Douglas. This miner tried to escape with his belongings (money) but was killed by one of the bandit. The money of the miner was taken by the fourth member of the gang, a Mexican Indian (Henry Sylva) who ran away to meet her wife and son. Douglas went behind him, but could not kill the Indian because of the help of the Indian's wife. When Douglas recovered the Indian once again told him that he did not know Douglas' wife, but in the meantime Douglas saw his bag (the one taken from the miner)with the money, and asked the Indian how he could deny all this when his bag of money was stolen at that night and was there. The Indian quietly replied that he took it from the miner killed by one of the bandits. Interesting that Douglas when he previously noticed that the miner was killed, he asserted that the miner never did anything wrong against anyone in his life. The film showed that nobody has right to make justice alone, one should know the facts before doing something against people that may not be really guilty. Douglas was ashamed of what he did and when he came back to the town, the first thing he did was to go to the church for praying and apologizing for killing people who never did what he thought they did.
Review of The Bravados
