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Overview
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Writers:
E.L. Doctorow (novel)
Burt Kennedy (writer)
Release Date:
June 1967 (Austria) more
Tagline:
One bullet can kill a town...just like a man!
Plot:
In the town of Hard Times, a stranger rides in and terrorizes the small settlement. He kills a number of townsfolk... more | add synopsis
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Fonda in a solid adult western more (32 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Henry Fonda | ... | Mayor Will Blue |
 | Janice Rule | ... | Molly Riordan |
| Keenan Wynn | ... | Zar |
| Janis Paige | ... | Adah |
| John Anderson | ... | Ezra Maple / Isaac Maple |
| Warren Oates | ... | Leo Jenks |
| Fay Spain | ... | Jessie |
| Edgar Buchanan | ... | Brown |
| Aldo Ray | ... | Man from Bodie |
| Denver Pyle | ... | Alfie - Stage Driver |
| Michael Shea | ... | Jimmy Fee |
| Arlene Golonka | ... | Mae |
 | Lon Chaney Jr. | ... | Avery (as Lon Chaney) |
| Royal Dano | ... | John Bear |
| Alan Baxter | ... | Jack Millay |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Killer on a Horse (UK)
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Runtime:
103 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
West Germany:16 (f) | UK:X (theatrical release) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 (1969) | Sweden:15
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Originally made for television in 1966, but released to theaters instead, before being shown on TV. more
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Brown, Territorial Governor's Rep.:
Now, you going to have a peace officer. You there!
Deputy Marshal Leo Jenks:
Me?
Brown, Territorial Governor's Rep.:
Yeah, you're the only one carrying a gun. You ever kill a man?
Deputy Marshal Leo Jenks:
Well, yessir, I reckon I did.
Brown, Territorial Governor's Rep.:
Good. Here pin that on.
[Brown gives Jenks a badge]
Brown, Territorial Governor's Rep.:
You are hereby sworn a Deputy Sheriff. You salary is twenty-five dollars a year, payable next year. Now, you'll take up a collection and build a jail. If you get a serious outlaw that ain't dead, write a letter to the capital and we'll put a circuit judge on ya. So here's the town charter, the census list forms and a petition for statehood. Get people to sign that when you ain't busy.
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There are a lot of interesting aspects to this above average adult western -- Fonda plays a wimp, Keenan Wynn plays a pimp who operates out of a bible tent, and Ray plays a "badman" who seems to have no motive for his destruction of the town of "Hard Times" (they could've picked a better name, eh?) than pure sadism. In Fonda's quest to prove his manhood and make a stand in Hard Times, a lot of fairly complex human themes come to the fore. Rule plays a believably highstrung Western Woman, bent on teaching her adopted son how to kill because she doesn't think Fonda has the guts.
One of Kennedy's better later westerns before he switched completely to the comedic mode, notable for a solid script based on an interesting story with great character performances throughout.