The last major western of Anthony Mann, possibly his best. The leading character, Link Jones, follows the archetypal revenge path of Mann’s protagonist, though in this movie, the revenge, unlike his movies with Jimmy Stewart, is initially not self-conscious. On his arrival at the shack where his ex-gang members live, in response to one of them asking how he found the place, he states, “I stumbled into it.” Mann returns to the theme of violence as the undercurrent of relations