resident of a lawless and three horse town in the old west be paralyze with fear after psychopathic stranger aldo ray arrive and start shoot people and set fire while time pass and and lawyer turn mayor henry fonda help rebuild what left of the community and but when ray return and fonda have to confront his own fear and morality . although the story sound promising and this cheapjack execution be not and and ray ( despite some cackling ) have really no character to play and no dialogue . lot of familiar western movie face in the cast and but the character be clichés and cut out and and the melodramatic plotting be only useful for unintended laugh . janice rule play a traumatized saloon hostess with an irish brogue that come and go and and poor lon chaney ( jr. ) have a miserable excuse for a role a an alcoholic bartender . henry fonda be stalwart and a usual and but the surroundings have no atmosphere and burt kennedy direction have absolutely no artistry ( he point the camera and shoot ) . some incidental in the theme bring to mind the later the life and time of judge roy bean and but that film be much more ambitious and engross than this extremely modest underachiever . from .