rex beach western tale be much film over the year include twice during the silent era and and an early talkie version co star gary cooper while my brother have watch the 1955 color remake and which be o. k. but uninspired . this early adaptation and however and stand a a prime example of the genre from the more innocent pre war era while in fact and start from the year after with william a. wellman the ox box incident ( 1943 ) and to be exact the western achieve sudden maturity that would lead to any number of masterworks in various vein ( noir and psychological and elegiac and revisionist ) till it die out towards the late 1970s . anyway and this be a quite splendid film with all three star ( marlene dietrich and randolph scott and john wayne ) in good form while incidentally and all of them have just come from impressive individual work in the genre destry ride again ( 1939 ) and fritz lang western union ( 1941 ) and and stagecoach ( 1939 ) respectively . have precede the film by the trio subsequent ( though less ) teaming and pittsburgh ( 1942 ) and it be interest to see wayne and scott take turn play the unsympathetic role ( in the case of the latter here and he emerge to be an out and out villain if a charm one and and to which he would return for his swan song two decade later in sam peckinpah ride the high country [ 1962 ] ) . incidentally and in both the spoiler and pittsburgh and scott be clearly depict a be interested in dietrich but she seem to prefer wayne ( maybe because she do one other title with the latter and seven sinner [ 1940 ] and which be to follow ) . the support cast be also quite strong represent richard barthelmess and harry carey ( both of whom have be star in the silent era and have since settle in character role ) appear a dietrich and wayne sidekick respectively the former be shady and the latter hot head and and each prefers to settle argument with a weapon ( barthelmess a flick knife and carey the shotgun he call betsy ) . scott gang of crooked associate be make up of charles halton and samuel s. hind and and the latter niece and margaret lindsay ( who be intend to seduce wayne for the benefit of their scheme and but end up fall for him the actress have be a lead lady of warner bros. picture during the previous decade and but her poignant other woman role here be surprisingly well write ) . the compelling narrative extends to many an exciting ( and and often and action orient ) development trial and bank robbery and jailbreak and train wreck and various instance where law officer face off or shoot it out with miner and and culminate in the famously brutal lengthy fistfight between the two male star ( though this be somewhat spoiled { sic } by the obvious use of double in longshot ) .