The marshal of a wild Kansas border town is killed in a gunfight in a saloon. His son, Cheyenne Harry, shoots dead two of the killers.
Eugene B. Lewis, Bernard McConville
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The Weight of an Oath: Violence and Virtue in Bare Fists Dust-choked streets and moral quandaries collide with startling intensity in Bare Fists, a 1927 Western that transcends its genre’s typical shoot-’em-up bravado. Director Louis R. Lederer crafts not just an action piece, but a philosophical crucible where masc...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
John Ford
John Ford
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" The Weight of an Oath: Violence and Virtue in Bare Fists Dust-choked streets and moral quandaries collide with startling intensity in Bare Fists, a 1927 Western that transcends its genre’s typical shoot-’em-up bravado. Director Louis R. Lederer crafts not just an action piece, but a philosophical crucible where masculinity, honor, and pacifism are violently reforged. Harry Carey’s Cheyenne Harry isn’t merely a cowboy; he’s a man ensnared by the impossible tension between his mother’s desperat..."
