The fundamentally ethical Joel McCrea is in the lead, so his Wes McQueen is not a burnt-out case but a convict who has acquired some perspective about his profession: McQueen desires to make one big score and then quietly retire.
The screenplay seems rooted to the rugged terrain: driving from Ohio to the Coast, and back and forth on those endless, lonely desert roads.
Wes and Colorado fall into a trap only because the sheriff Morris Ankrum is unusually clever.
Interestingly, the final disposition of the robbery loot is left up in the air, or in this case, forgotten atop a confessional booth.
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He and Joseph MacInnerny are two critical studies students I would like to reconnect with.