burt kennedy who make so many good comic western back in the day and try his hand at a serious realistic western and fell flat on his face with it . henry fonda must have felt like tyrone power in nightmare alley and he and the film get great critical review and the public stay away in drove . no accident and western fan expect certain thing in their film and welcome to hard time delivers none of them . it be a realistic depiction of the growth of a western town and maybe too realistic . henry fonda be the mayor of this little burg and purportedly the hero of the piece . problem be that there be nothing heroic about fonda nor the town people . aldo ray be the silent man from bodie and the villain of the story . he about the bad villain on screen since liberty valance and without any redeeming characteristic . he defile some of the woman and shoot some of the men and and set fire to the town . a few include henry fonda try to stop him and fail . fonda fail in a moment of weakness . fonda girl friend janice rule be among the defile and she grow understandably bitter . the main story line be the conflict between rule and fonda and especially over young michael shea whose father be kill by aldo ray and who fonda have now take over raise . some veteran player like keenan wynn and warren oates and denver pyle and edgar buchanan and and lon chaney and jr. and make thing interest a the story drag on . there be of course a final and very bloody confrontation again with aldo ray that have some unexpected consequence . somebody should have tell the town of hard time what the town in johnny concho do about william conrad who be in the aldo ray role in that film . the solution to the problem of hard time be right there .