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In this classic Western, when a posse catches up three men suspected of killing a local farmer, some of them become strongly divided on whether or not to lynch the men.
One of the first probes of mob lynch, Wellman's grim, uncompromising expose was critically acclaimed but failed, perhaps because it was released during WWII, when viewers wanted more escapist entertainment
In contrast to the familiar Western device of the hero obliged to take the law into his own hands a grim, messy cautionary tale about vigilante justice and mob rule.