The Bravados (1958)
Directed by Henry King
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.
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What critics compared The Bravados to
The initial section is basically a revenge story, modeled after Westerns like “The Bravados” or the Sergio Leone spaghetti variants, about an individual tracking the person who killed his family In order to even the score, though here he’s not a solitary avenger.
It’s a tale that’s been told repeatedly on screen—remember Gregory Peck’s 1958 Western “The Bravados,” among many others?