Townspeople lynch a Mexican teenager. The kid's father tries to rescue him and goes to prison. When he's released, he and his two other sons come to town to kill the people responsible. Which should have been good, but all they do is hang around in a bar holding several men hostage. They're going to kill them one by one until the sheriff comes so they can kill him.
If they had just gone out and killed people, peeling them off one by one, it might have been pretty good. But it just dragged on and on. The sheriff fretted in his office and did nothing. It could have been a like slasher movie where even right-minded people rooted for the slasher.
The sheriff was locked in a real Oedipal conflict. It was his actual son who wanted to get him out of the way and take his place. Which made less sense than in High Noon because sheriff is an elective office. They should have shown the son gathering signatures to get on the ballot.
Filmed in Scotland, Arkansas. It was the real town. They had to put up a big saloon sign on a building.
Director Richard C. Sarafian's first movie. He had done a lot of TV before this and went on to direct Vanishing Point and The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing among other things.
Available on Tubi. I started watching it on another obscure streaming channel but they commercials about every ten minutes.
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