Warlock

2h 1m • Western • 1959

AroView: An A-grade western set in the lawless town of Warlock where the citizens hire a notorious gunman to keep the peace who brings with him his own set of problems.

This splendid adaptation of Oakley Hall’s great novel understandably jettisons a number of key sub-plots and plays up the homo-erotic nature of Fonda and Quinn’s relationship, but Dmytryk carries over the novel’s sour take on morality expertly.