welcome to hard time ( burt kennedy and 1967 ) be a visibly cheap and shabby little western star henry fonda in his senior stage a a movie star . the film reflect the anarchic dissonance and harsh violence of the newfangled spaghetti western then pour out of europe and but ultimately it sensibility and construction belong to television . it a traditional western ( partly comedic and partly melodramatic ) that play like a bunch of tv western episode paste together in slack fashion and while also project some of that spaghetti dirtiness and desolation . the 61 year old fonda ( play a 49 year old but look his real age ) be excellent a a wary and avuncular and impotent realist who shy away from violence and heroic action until he have no other choice . janice rule and a fonda testily neurotic and misguided female antagonist and be also stellar and a be aldo ray a the wildly destructive stranger and an anarchic monster periodically haunt this muddy little outpost ( which can hardly be consider a town ) . unfortunately and these actor be diamond in dung in a tonally inconsistent and unfocused and and clumsy little western from kennedy . the spastic and sudden violence of the opening and closing act and and the conflict between fonda and rule over the fate of the young boy ( play by 13 year old michael shea ) and make welcome to hard time worthy of a look . however and the picture isn not pretty .