it be make to a formula and revolve around most of the cliche in the western handbook but it be hard not to enjoy this film . it be base on the life of the famous texan john wesley hardin . his youth be shape by the civil war and by his preacher father . when his father forbid him to practise shoot young wes reckons it about time to leave home and seek his fortune . almost immediately he kill a local gunslinger and plunge into the life of a rootin tootin cowboy and gambler and outlaw . it have a classic opening a dignified man walk out of the prison gate and shake hand with the warden and sniff the air of freedom . it have an equally recognisable end and back at the ranch to see how his wife and family have manage during the long year of incarceration . the final scene of the film be lovely and it would not spoil the film to say he learn from his experience and live a long and happy life . there be nothing new in this film . although it claim to be an autobiography and it be one of countless 1950 westerns with a theme of a young man seek adventure and find redemption . the real strength of the movie be it star rock hudson and barrel chested and manly and who shoot and ride and kiss and gamble and drink as well a any of his contemporary . one of the baddie be a young lee van cleef who easily steal scene from his fellow wrong doer . it would not change your life and the way shane might have do but it would not hurt you to watch it and and to remember rock hudson in the way he should be remember .