There is a distinct flavor of the brawnily austere Westerns that comprise Budd Boetticher’s cult-favorite Ranown Cycle — and more than a hint of another showcase for the great Randolph Scott, Sam P…
,” a small-budget indie that aims to please the currently underserved niche audience for oaters.
Dern doesn’t get a lot of screen time here, but he makes every moment count as Blair Callahan, the snarlingly authoritative paterfamilias for a family of rustlers, killers and assorted other ne’er-do-wells whose none-too-bright son Jody has unaccountably captured the fancy of Jocelyn , a small-town beauty whose lawman dad recently died.
Understandably upset, Jocelyn vamooses from the Callahan enclave, and eventually crosses paths with two travelers bound for a remote stagecoach station: Red , a grizzled fellow who’s transporting a wagon of supplies to the outpost, and Billy , a taciturn stranger on his way to a date with destiny of some sort. Billy proves quick on the draw when Sid and his confederate Twigs show up to retrieve the runaway bride.
Operating from a workmanlike script credited to Lee Martin, Feifer capably sets up the interactions and revelations — a few of them mildly surprising — that lead to the titular clash at the stagecoach station. There are a tad too many flashbacks, which feel like so much padding, and it must be acknowledged that both Harris and Gigandet look less like hardened gunslingers than male models on some improbably far-flung western-wear fashion shoot.
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