The outlaw-besieged mining town of Warlock hires a professional vigilante gunslinger named Clay (Henry Fonda) and his club-footed sidekick (Anthony Quinn) to clean up the streets and restore law and order. They tidy things up all right, but their brutal methods call the whole concept of law and order into question. Eventually a reformed outlaw in town named Johnny (Richard Widmark) is elected sheriff, and a showdown with Clay seems inevitable, especially after a beautiful woman (Dolores Michaels) arrives in town accusing Clay of murdering her fiancé.

This character-driven, thinking man's Western benefits from a cast of familiar supporting actors: Wallace Ford, Richard Arlen, Whit Bissell, DeForest Kelley (Bones from STAR TREK) and Frank Gorshin (The Riddler from TV's BATMAN). Director Edward Dmytryk successfully incorporates lofty issues of morality and masculinity into the traditional western trappings, and the result is a classic of the genre, both thoughtful and two-fisted.

Tired of being victimized by a gang of outlaws, the citizens of Warlock, a small mining town, hire a professional gunslinger to clean up their community. However, the townspeople soon discover that they have only traded one form of exploitation for another.

Theatrical release: April 30, 1959 (New York City).

DVD Features:

Region 1
NTSC
Keep Case
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Mono - English, Spanish, French
Stereo - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Bonus Footage: "Fox Movietone News: Queen Frederika at Imperial Ball"
Trailers:
1. Theatrical Trailer
2. Old West Theatre Trailers

Henry Fonda: Oscar winning actor, ON GOLDEN POND
Anthony Quinn: Mexican actor, ZORBA THE GREEK
Richard Widmark: American Actor/Producer
Dorothy Malone: American Actress
Dolores Michaels: American Actress
Wallace Ford: British Actor
Tom Drake: American actor, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
Richard Arlen: American Actor

Edward Dmytryk: Director

Edward Dmytryk: Director

Robert Alan Aurthur: Screenwriter/Novelist

Leigh Harline: American composer

Jack W. Holmes: 

"Screen angel Henry Fonda is absolutely riveting in this pre-Leone transformation..."
"[O]ne of the most thoughtful studies of bravado and the power of holding a gun ever put on the big screen."