Backlash

Backlash

1956 · 84 min · EN · NR · 6.2 (35 votes)
Dir. John Sturges · Starring Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, William Campbell, John McIntire, Barton MacLane, Harry Morgan

Was The SIXTH MAN The Secret To The Five Empty Graves?...the Answer waited in a woman's lips and watched from the shadows of a frightened town!

Western

Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.

VIBE

A stoic, dusty Western where a man grapples with his past and a violent legacy. Expect simmering tensions, moral ambiguity, and the unforgiving landscape of the frontier as old wounds reopen.

grittytensemelancholicstoicsteadyclassic westerndusty realismfrontier dramarevengeidentitylegacysurvival
based on novel or booksearchapache nationnative americangunfight
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