ChikPapa Very disappointed :(

CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

tthomas-38 I watched this a very long time ago (sometime in the early 60's, and I think I was about 10 years old). It made me cry at the end, and I recall feeling embarrassed about that, but I always remembered it, and when I joined Netflix, I figured I'd track it down. I knew it was black-and-white, so when I started watching the John Ford, John Wayne version, I realized it wasn't the same film.Sure enough, the characters and the ending were nothing like this one, the original (talkie, since I gather there was also a silent version that preceded this one). Even though it was over 40 years ago, I vividly remember the scene at the waterhole, and the last of the bad men stumbling into that dusty little town on the edge of the desert. I didn't understand it fully at the time, but it was probably my first exposure to the idea that good and evil can coexist in the human soul.

bradmoore I stumbled across this movie in the wee hours of the morning and was riveted by the story and acting. Chester Morris whom I had never heard of was excellent as the cold blooded gunman and of course Walter Brennan put in his usual excellent work. I had a hard time believing it was made in 1936 it has aged well in comparison to most westerns made before the fifties. All three main characters were excellent and the story moved at a good pace with a good twist at the end. I would recommend this movie to any fan of westerns and hope to catch it again so I can tape it................9 out of 10. I hope I can find this on a decent DVD print as it would be a most welcome addition to any western fans collection.

dave94703 My god, one of the characters is dying of lung cancer, reading Schopenhauer, and quoting King Lear: what a western! I bet both the novelist AND the scriptwriter were terminal.No-name actors, no-name director, you can see why it qualified so soon for a John Wayne remake. The film medium is versatile; there's room for all kinds of statements. The uniformity of output that characterizes films like the Wayne version was a function of the blockbuster-or-nothing mentality of the era, a mentality we're far from free of. This isn't a normal Hollywood-style movie, but an essay that happens to employ the medium of film. The selfless moments and philosophical asides are the stars, the action the backdrop. I enjoyed it tremendously.

raskimono This touching moral lesson had been done as a silent version and in another version which is more known because of the renown of its director John Ford, but this version is equally as good as the latter version. Being an MGM version, it's a bit smaltzy as MGM movies of the thirties tended to emphasize that aspect of a story but director, Richard Boleslawski is able to keep the proceedings honest and true. Chester Morris, Lewis Stone and Walter Brennan are very good as the outlaws who ride into and rob a bank in a pious town - Chester Morris plays the "I don't give a damn" cowboy perfectly and with resonance. They make their getaway and in the desert find a baby, and the psychological issues of right and wrong as their paternal, maternal and surrogate parental instincts that exist in all of us take over. As they try to save the child, the trials and tribulations they go through bring out the best qualities of human nature in all of them in us, the audience, as well.