Face of a Fugitive (1959)
Country: US
Technical: Eastmancolor 81m
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Dorothy Green, Alan Baxter
Synopsis:
An outlaw escapes his gaolers in transit, but his brother and a deputy are killed. Arriving in the next town he impersonates a mining company man and abets the local sheriff in his fight with a landowner over fencing off a right of way.
Review:
Unusually premised Columbia Western, with an antihero whom we only see do good things. Briskly directed, with a well-handled action climax, it coasts along on 'nice 'n' easy' on a star performance that has you regretting he didn't do more Westerns. Jerrald Goldsmith (sic) provides idiomatic scoring and a young James Coburn nuanced villainy.
Country: US
Technical: Eastmancolor 81m
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Dorothy Green, Alan Baxter
Synopsis:
An outlaw escapes his gaolers in transit, but his brother and a deputy are killed. Arriving in the next town he impersonates a mining company man and abets the local sheriff in his fight with a landowner over fencing off a right of way.
Review:
Unusually premised Columbia Western, with an antihero whom we only see do good things. Briskly directed, with a well-handled action climax, it coasts along on 'nice 'n' easy' on a star performance that has you regretting he didn't do more Westerns. Jerrald Goldsmith (sic) provides idiomatic scoring and a young James Coburn nuanced villainy.
Country: US
Technical: Eastmancolor 81m
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Dorothy Green, Alan Baxter
Synopsis:
An outlaw escapes his gaolers in transit, but his brother and a deputy are killed. Arriving in the next town he impersonates a mining company man and abets the local sheriff in his fight with a landowner over fencing off a right of way.
Review:
Unusually premised Columbia Western, with an antihero whom we only see do good things. Briskly directed, with a well-handled action climax, it coasts along on 'nice 'n' easy' on a star performance that has you regretting he didn't do more Westerns. Jerrald Goldsmith (sic) provides idiomatic scoring and a young James Coburn nuanced villainy.