Bill Everson declared that most versions of Bret Harte's 1869 story were "strong on talk and dramatics, decidedly weak on visuals", which is a bit hard on Joseph LaShelle's atmospheric work on this instalment which resembles a film noir as much as a western.
You always know you're in for something special when it snows in a western, and this cross between 'Boule de Suif' and 'The Petrified Forest' doesn't disappoint, with Anne Baxter radiant in an early film in her transition from ingenue to lady with a past.
You always know you're in for something special when it snows in a western, and this cross between 'Boule de Suif' and 'The Petrified Forest' doesn't disappoint, with Anne Baxter radiant in an early film in her transition from ingenue to lady with a past.