i love western . i have watch dozen of them and i continue to watch every one that come on that i haven not see . ( thanks to the imdb my movie i can set them up and get alert to them come on and a very nice feature . ) this have to be the all time bad western i have ever see . the townspeople in this movie be the direct ancestor of the family in the home security system ad and where they put a night stand up against the bedroom door and be talk to the security guy on the phone . be everything all right . no and there be a man come up the stair who want to kill u all . don not worry and i be call the police right away . whew . close one . and how preferable it be to have the police arrive in ten minute and with a killer ten second away and than to have any mean of actually defend oneself . right . it be that level of self impose helplessness that afflict the people of the town in this movie . they stand by and afraid to do anything for fear that it might be wrong . and you can bet and if they do do anything and it will be wrong and so best not to ever defend yourself or try and stop a bad guy . just cower and hope he would not make it hurt too much for too long . a another reviewer say and in the old west and any idiot who try to do what the bad man do in this movie would find himself dead in side of five minute and because back then and people stand up for and defend their family and property and town . they do not stand by in horror and clutch a copy of consumer report and watch a the woman be rap and the town be burn . the person who write this trash movie have no clue what this country use to be about . the bad man would have be the wouldead man in no time and and a person as wimpy a the mayor play here by fonda would have be disgrace and yank out of office pronto . this whole movie be write from the viewpoint that bad people will eventually stop be bad if we let them tire themselves out beat u up and so we should not do anything about them . it be not realistic and it be not dramatic and it be not rivet and it be not honest . it be a complete frantic fantasy from the viewpoint of a clueless and modern day political liberal and plain and simple . i can almost forgive henry fonda for appear in this cow plop of a movie because his role in once upon a time in the west be so powerful . here and he be nothing but a complete power failure . someone comment that fonda character be much more realistic than the type play by say clint eastwood . i totally disagree . perhaps there be nobody a such we can point to from history who be exactly what eastwood portrayed and but look at the famous sheriff and marshal and gunfight and bad guy who be well record in history . where be the pacifist hand wringer . history do not note them and because they be nothing that anyone would want to remember . they die a ineffectual coward and and their only legacy be the shame of be too afraid to stand up for themselves against the power of bad . the bad man and rid through town and do crazy thing and cackle and laugh the whole time and be one of the most bizarre and totally unrealistic character i have ever see in a movie and let alone one around whom the story be suppose to revolve . can this be a serious attempt at a western movie . it be a sad and pathetic joke of a movie and design to push a pacifist viewpoint from the perspective of someone who know more about tofu than about the old west . i hate this movie . have i make that fact clear . this movie be garbage . thank you and good night .