Rock Hudson as a sheriff named Dana Stribling who goes to Mexico looking for a man named O'Malley who dresses in black with a bright colored scarf and has a "hole" in his chin.
I don't know how Kirk Douglas felt about that description.
Stribling catches up with O'Malley but can't arrest him in Mexico, so they both go to work driving a herd of cattle to Texas. O'Malley and the sixteen-year-old daughter of an old flame fall in love and plan to marry which turns out to be far more perverse than you're thinking.
It was pretty good, I guess. I didn't like the ending.
Rock Hudson's laid back performance made Kirk Douglas look like he was working way too hard.
I couldn't tell, but the script by Dalton Trumbo reportedly needed work, but Trumbo had already moved on to other things trying to reestablish his career. He had fled to Mexico himself during the blacklist.
Available on the Criterion Channel.
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