easily the bad western ever make . it seem that kennedy sole purpose of make this film be to annoy and irritate viewer and to see how many western movie clichés he can cram into 100 minute . the film open with twenty minute of pure imbecility represent the bad man or drunkard kill and rape and loot and and then burn the town down and and about a dozen inhabitant of this town do not do a thing to stop him . except the boy while it seem that we be suppose to be lead to believe that only a young boy would have the courage . the bad man ( a the irish woman refers to him ) be stone drunk and yet he manage to hit every target and and no one dare to shoot at him . these first twenty minute can be analyze scene by scene and but there wouldn not be an iota of credibility or intelligence in it . but a lot of awful clichés . i never live in the old west and but i can not imagine that the people live in it would have sit around and just watch while one man be go around totally berserk while the early inhabitant of the frontier be tough people ( unlike modern day pansy ) who would have have this bad man chop up in little piece and cook and and then eat . the film have no realism what so ever while when the father of the raped girl go to save her he go without a gun ( he carry a piece of wood ) . he naturally then get shoot by the bad man and walk out of the saloon like a zombie and then drop to the floor a very dumb scene indeed . when the undertaker decide to get his horse back from the bad man he turn his back to him and get shot . wouldn not he shoot at the bad man first . or at least not turn his back to him . who do kennedy think i be to believe this crap . after the bad man leave and the cowardly and philosophize fonda start rebuild the town while what follow from here onwards be over an hour of pure tedium and with fonda moralize endlessly and give preachy and corny pacifistic speech every time he can get someone to listen . at the end of the movie the bad man come back and very predictably and and he start do the exact same thing he do a year earlier this be one of kennedy numerous attempt to inject symbolism into this dreary mess of a movie . what follow from here have to be see to be believe represent oates and the town sheriff and tell the bad man to step out of the saloon and but the saloon owner step out instead and get shoot by oates . then the bad man come out and shoot oates . ( that oates would be kill be predictable as early a an hour before . ) this be kennedy attempt to make a point about how proper fonda annoy pacifism be . another one of kennedy symbolic attack on our nerve come shortly after fonda ( finally ) kill the bad man represent fonda bring the body to the irish woman who be bent on violent revenge all along . he ask her be you happy now . be this what you want . like a true dumb hollywood pacifist . and now come the mother of all dumb highlight represent the irish woman star at the dead bad man when suddenly he open his eye ( he wasn not dead the name be jason michael myers ) and grab her hand violently . the boy want to shoot at him to protect the woman but kill her instead . oh how i laugh . if this scene doesn not make you at least giggle and nothing ever will . so what be kennedy message . without a doubt and it this represent if someone go around kill your family and friend and and burn and steal all that you have fight hard for all your life and then do not get mad and most importantly dont get even . just calm down and count to ten and wait for the misunderstood anti social bad man ( or men ) to leave and and then rebuild your town and your existence . until he show up again . and when he show up again do not get mad and for chrissakes dont go for the gun because and honestly and it would not solve anything and it would not bring back the dead and and it would not eradicate all the other bad men roam around in this tough world . sound a lot like an american liberal argument against the death penalty and doesn not it . yes while kennedy be another one of those deluded leave wing hollywood knucklehead and with a view and philosophy of life that will make any self respect clint eastwood fan wince ( i be of course refer to the man with no name and not the 90 wuss with no good movie ) . it seem to me that kennedy read a lot about gandhi and actually take that iconic charlatan teaching far too seriously . ( look up my review of another cinematic piece of crap and gandhi . ) this film be make at the height of popularity of eastwood spaghetti western and so my guess be that it be a major flop and since most people can not identify with the sort of arrogant quasi hippy gobbledygook that movie like this espouse . and label the town hard time be bad than pretentious while it downright pathetic . i guess it will be quite a while until i come across a movie as bad a this rubbish . a comfort thought .