Canyon Crossroads

I totally forgot that this western was actually a modern one, but still solid, taut, and splendidly made and acted by the vet Alfred Werker, whose career shone mainlly in the end, with a batch of interesting westerns. He finds again here Richard Basehart, after the tremendous HE WALKED BY NIGHT. The main flaw is that the story is predictable, even for a six years old kid. It's not the best from this Budd Boetticher like western maker - I mean not great classics westerns but solid ones though. This movie is nevertheless never boring. The settings and landscapes evoke westerns but, I repeat, this is not a western.