Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

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There's a fight (and it's a honey) during which Haven KO's Mick, impressing the sloeeyed Charlie (whom Haven has shrewdly sized up as the town's Big Wheel) no end. She offers him a job running her stage coach line, and Haven, suspecting that Charlie is involved in past and present skullduggery around the gold mine, accepts, hoping to learn something. He does — the hardest possible way. There's a brief, doomed love between these two, but that isn't the big thing here. What will hold you from beginning to end is the action: the fights, the chases, the warehouse fire at the end. Agnes Moorehead, prettier than we've ever seen her, is fine as the fiancee of Haven's commanding officer (Tom Powers). Jane Greer is lovely, but a little bit wooden. Burl Ives, as Orville — Haven's guitar-playing hotel clerk — is — well, don't you love that man? This is an excellent Western, full of the stuff that makes your heart pound. Go see it. — RKO. 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