Boetticher's last film with Randolph Scott.
I noticed multiple similarities to 1956's Seven Men From Now including a shared journey among enemies, misperception of Scott's motives and details of traveling on horseback.
Over a dying campfire, Claude Akins tells a story to Scott much like the story told by Lee Marvin in the wagon in Seven Men From Now, veiling a threat in the guise of a fable.
I believe the town they were traveling to is called "Lawrenceville", but the Western accents made me believe they were saying "Lourdes". This along with a discovered body in the river made to look like a baptism kept me looking for religious parallels. I might have been looking too closely...
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