 Palance...But the reason this film is not so touching is because it is antique and absurd—-the kind of glorification of the gunman that was obsolescent when "High Sierra" was made.It is an insult to social institutions and to public intelligence to pull this old mythological hero out of the archives and set him on a mountain top again.The pretense is so blunt and sentimental that it makes the whole thing a total "cliché".