Word: rustler
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...Marshal Douglas rescues a salty old rustler (Walter Brennan) from being lynched as a murderer, and starts back with him to distant Santa Loma for trial. Along the way he endures interference by the rustler's hellcatty daughter (Virginia Mayo), ambush and pursuit by the lynch mob, the shooting of one deputy, the treachery of another, the loss of his horse, a desert sandstorm and a three-day spell of thirst and sleeplessness. Worst of all, he is sorely tormented by his prisoner's sadistic singing of a ballad that summons up the marshal's old guilt...
...roistering, rampaging years, Francisco Villa, the cattle rustler and mule driver from Durango, was the joy and terror of the Mexican Revolution. "Pancho" Villa, Mexicans said, could "march 100 miles without stopping, live 100 days without food, go 100 nights without sleep, and kill 100 men without remorse." But by 1920, after fighting and looting across two-thirds of Mexico, leading howling cavalry charges to please a U.S. movie cameraman, burning the New Mexico town of Columbus, dodging General Pershing's avenging army and capturing Mexico City itself, Villa was outfought by the government's methodical General Alvaro...
...West before him. Like them, he had seen the West as a vast, unfenced, unclaimed territory where a strong man could take what he wanted. Beck had wanted its roaming herds of labor. He rounded them up, hogtied them, and branded them by the thousands. He fought off Rustler Harry Bridges with one hand while piously rustling the herds of lesser unions with the other...
...plot. Dealing with the life of a wounded badman recuperating in a Quaker family, the script is both clever and tasteful. The writers manage to convey the beliefs of that seet with all the necessary finesse and still draw the comedy of ardent pacifists playing hosts to a befuddled rustler. While the action follows through to the hoped-for conclusion, the climax happily avoids time-worn convention. John Wayne's choice between the security of his gun and beautiful Gail Russell comes over as a very real emotional problem and allows the execution of a neat surprise ending...
...Lone Ranger radio program, he had not only been pictured as a common burglar and been suggested as responsible for turning a boy into a criminal, he complained, but "they had this Lone Ranger shootin' a gun out of my hand-and me an expert!" The onetime cattle-rustler, train-robber, killer (some dozen men by his own count), jailbird† (pardoned by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907), held the jury spellbound with tales of his early crimes, but earnestly denied that he had ever robbed a bank. "I don't know anything about burglary," he insisted...