Not Rated | 1h 38min | Drama, Western | 1958
The outstanding actor Gregory Peck isn’t usually associated with Westerns; he’s typically viewed more as a man who starred in contemporary (at the time) dramas. But Peck’s performances in Westerns often exemplified the best of the genre. After all, this is the same man who starred in films like “The Big Country (1958)” and “The Gunfighter (1950).” In director Henry King’s 1958 Western, “The Bravados,” Peck adds yet another notch to his imitable Western film résumé.
Here, Peck fills the dusty, well-worn boots of rancher Jim Douglass. Douglass has been trailing four men who he’s convinced raped and murdered his wife. After six months, he’s tracked them down to the small town of Rio Arriba, where they’ve been jailed and are scheduled to hang the very next day for an unrelated murder. Needless to say, Douglass doesn’t want to miss the show….