Peck's next movie, the western "The Bravados" (1958), reunited him with director Henry King after a six-year gap. King was widely considered to have produced some of Peck's best work; Peck once said "King was like an older brother, even a father figure. We communicated without talking anything to death. It was direction by osmosis." In "The Bravados", Peck's character spends weeks pursuing four outlaws whom he believes raped and murdered his wife while agonizing over his own morals. The film was a moderate success, finishing in the top 20 of the box office for 1959. In recent years, the film and Peck's performance has received mixed reviews; with "TimeOut" asserting that "Peck's "crisis of conscience..is worked out in perfunctory religious terms;" and "TV Guide" stating Peck's cowboy's "moment of truth is a powerful one and he gives it all the value it deserves, although much of his acting up to then had been lackluster."