The film opens with a group of men attempting to hang a young Mexican man for stealing a calf. The Sheriff comes to the aid of the young man as well as the mans father, but because of certain circumstances the young man is hung anyway.
The father, Juan Avila (Peter Mamakos) vows vengeance on the Sheriff named Cal and attempts to kill him on the spot. The Sheriff wins the shootout as he shoots Avila in the hand.
Flash forward a few years and Avila is still in the small town and bitter as ever. He rides into town and takes over the drinking hole. He holds the patrons hostage and vows to kill one of them every ten minutes until the Sheriff comes out and faces him one final time.
Slowly the tension builds until the simple but well done climax.
This is a very interesting film, which oacks more into 67 minutes than most modern films have in 2 plus hours! Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, who would go on to direct hundreds of TV shows and other classic movies in a long career, this film moves at a very quick pace and Sarafian knows how to handle the directing chores in an almost one set movie.
The cast is remarkable for a little low budget western and it includes House Peters, Jr. as the Sheriff, John A. Alonzo, I. Stanford Jolley and lovely Sandra Knight.
I am glad Alpha has made this available and the print they have is very, very good. If you like westerns with a twist, you might want to try this one.
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