Day of the Badman
Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence - and his unfaithful fiancée.
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"Harry Keller, better known for comedies than Westerns, has the good luck of having Fred MacMurray in the cast, a city judge doing his utmost to make sure that the killer of a local resident is brought before the court and probably hanged. All conditions seem in place to ensure that that happens, but things begin to slip: his fiancée Joan Walden falls in love with the handsome sheriff and his wedding is on the skids; the lady whose husband Rudy Hayes killed first wanted him dead, then changes her mind in tune with most of the town and just wants him banished; and, HIGH NOON-like, top villain B..."
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Universal later re-used the story for The Judgment (1963).
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Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence - and his unfaithful fiancée.