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Law and Order
A former justice of the peace accepts the position of marshal in Tombstone and becomes embroiled in conflicts with a ruthless gang. The birth of the modern Western, long before the beginning of its classic phase. The story of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, this time based on a roman à clef by W. R. Burnett, famous for his crime novels from Little Caesar to The Asphalt Jungle. As black as the noir night is the merciless worldview of this film, directed by Edward L. Cahn in an appropriately artless, rigorous and realistic manner, which broke new ground in the genre and anticipated the much-cited ‘grit’ of Italian and ‘revisionist’ late Westerns by decades. Its hero (played ruthlessly by Walter Huston) was praised as ‘the killingest peace officer in the whole West’. Director Cahn is best known as a prolific maker of low-budget films, but his debut is an unexpected masterpiece waiting to be rediscovered. (C.H.)