Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region. Army veterans, just mustered out of the servic…
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region. Army veterans, just mustered out of the service, are going to one of the men's brother's ranch on their way West. Just as they arrive, Indians attack the ranch and kill the brother. He was killed because he was using faulty ammunition that did not fire. Buck Devlin (Randolph Scott), whose brother was killed, musters out of the service with pals John (James Garner) and Wilbur (Gordon Jones) and vows to find the men responsible for the crime. —JohnG2734@aol.com It's the late nineteenth century. Old habits die hard as despite being friends, Buck Devlin, John Maitland, and Wilbur Clegg, newly decommissioned from the US Army, still treat each other according to their final cavalry ranks, Captain, Sergeant, and Private, respectively. All planning to live in the same community in the western frontier as Buck's brother Dan Devlin and his family in seeing it as good a place as any, they arrive to find Dan just killed by marauding natives. It is, however, the fact that Dan could not adequately protect himself on which Buck blames his brother's death in his ammunition not just being defective but knowingly useless by whoever sold it to him. They track down many of the problems faced by Dan, his family and their neighbors, including this faulty ammunition, to the town of Medicine Bend, their arrival coinciding with a rash of robberies of migrating frontiers-people heading west into the Montana Territory and beyond. Necessarily dressed in brethren garb, Buck, John and Will find it is useful but not always easy to hide their true selves behind this façade as they try to discover the cause of all the problems. They have a good idea that every problem works back to businessman Ep Clark, who controls the town, including the mayor and the sheriff, and who has quashed any and all competition through threats and intimidation, the only business still in competition being the general store owned and operated by Elam King and his young adult niece Priscilla King. What happens with this collective may come down to a showdown between the leaders of the two sides, Ep versus Buck. —Huggo
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
Western
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In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region. Army veterans, just mustered out of the service, are going to one of the men's brother's ranch on their way West. Just as they arrive, Indians attack the ranch and kill the brother.
He was killed because he was using faulty ammunition that did not fire. Buck Devlin (Randolph Scott), whose brother was killed, musters out of the service with pals John (James Garner) and Wilbur (Gordon Jones) and vows to find the men responsible for the crime. —JohnG2734@aol.com It's the late nineteenth century.
Old habits die hard as despite being friends, Buck Devlin, John Maitland, and Wilbur Clegg, newly decommissioned from the US Army, still treat each other according to their final cavalry ranks, Captain, Sergeant, and Private, respectively. All planning to live in the same community in the western frontier as Buck's brother Dan Devlin and his family in seeing it as good a place as any, they arrive to find Dan just killed by marauding natives. It is, however, the fact that Dan could not adequately protect himself on which Buck blames his brother's death in his ammunition not just being defective but knowingly useless by whoever sold it to him.
They track down many of the problems faced by Dan, his family and their neighbors, including this faulty ammunition, to the town of Medicine Bend, their arrival coinciding with a rash of robberies of migrating frontiers-people heading west into the Montana Territory and beyond. Necessarily dressed in brethren garb, Buck, John and Will find it is useful but not always easy to hide their true selves behind this façade as they try to discover the cause of all the problems. They have a good idea that every problem works back to businessman Ep Clark, who controls the town, including the mayor and the sheriff, and who has quashed any and all competition through threats and intimidation, the only business still in competition being the general store owned and operated by Elam King and his young adult niece Priscilla King.
What happens with this collective may come down to a showdown between the leaders of the two sides, Ep versus Buck. —Huggo.