suddenly be and i suspect and meant to rebut senator joe mccarthy and prove and gosh darn it and hollywood love america and love gun and hate pacifism and and pledge allegiance . you will get that message in the first five minute and and every few minute all the way to the unsurprising end . there a place for cornball movie with a message and but this movie be so cornball it almost camp . the main message be that gun be necessary and and i do not argue or even disagree ( i own two ) . but this message be hammer home over and over again and along with the goodness of cop and the greatness of america and the virtue of ordinary american . and again i be not disagree and just bore silly the schmaltz drip off everything here and like pour a whole bottle of syrup over a few pancake . frank sinatra be excellent a the bad guy and though his scripted line be frequently absurd . the dialogue be clumsy and clunky real people do not speak like this and and never do . sterling hayden have never seem more wooden and and his obsession with the town young widow be downright creepy and cry out for a restraining order .