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Stranger on the Run
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Wikipedia article
'Stranger on the Run' is a 1967 American Made-for-television Western film directed by Don Siegel and starring Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter and Michael Parks. In some countries it premiered in cinemas.
Plot
Former inmate and alcoholic Ben Chamberlain (Fonda) comes to a railway town enquiring about a woman, of whom all seem afraid to speak; he receives a beating just for asking. Chamberlain braves the threats and calls at her house; he discovers her strewn, beaten dead body. The sheriff and his posse of local thuggish enforcers, incorrectly assuming that Chamberlain is the culprit because he left town without reason, form a posse. Although they catch him in the desert, the sheriff prevents his being lynched and gives him a horse and a head-start chance to reach the border. Chamberlain meets a lonely, widowed homesteader (Baxter), a woman whose troubles also include a son who aspires to be a gunman, but does not have the steely nature it takes. Chamberlain and she start to develop a mutual attraction, but this is interrupted when the posse arrives.
Both her son and the town need a new beginning in life. If the two can survive a 20-minute gunfight before the sheriff arrives, then all may be given their last chance in life.
Cast
* Henry Fonda as Ben Chamberlain
* Anne Baxter as Valvera Johnson
* Michael Parks as Vince McKay
* Dan Duryea as O.E. Hotchkiss
* Sal Mineo as George Blaylock
* Lloyd Bochner as Mr. Gorman
* Michael Burns as Matt Johnson
* Tom Reese as Leo Weed
* Bernie Hamilton as Dickory
* Zalman King as Larkin
* Madlyn Rhue as Alma Britten
* Walter Burke as Abraham Berk
* Rodolfo Acosta as Mercurio
* George Dunn as Pilney
* Pepe Hern as Manolo
Reception
Quentin Tarantino called it Siegel's best western after 'Flaming Star'. He stated "even though it has the Universal TV look of a 'The Virginian' episode, it has, after Andy Robinson's performance as Scorpio in 'Dirty Harry', the best performance in a Siegel film. Michael Parks as stoic, resilient, walrus-mustached sheriff Vince McKay."
References
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