Firecreek

When leaving the church service that was held in the general store, as Johnny Cobb bids farewell to the preacher, the boom mike is visible in the store's door window.

Evil is difficult to watch, and this movie has evil in spades. And it is excellent.

I had never heard of director Vincent McEveety but I find his direction competent and generally satisfying in FIRECREEK. The otherwise strong script allows Hamlet-like Jimmy Stewart to dither far too much, making the film unncessarily long.

A truly great Western that never really got it's due. The story line was great as was the cast.

James Stewart plays a farmer and part-time sheriff for the tiny town of Firecreek. He's got a baby on the way and isn't keen on sticking his nose into other people's business.

Firecreek is directed by Vincent McEveety and written by Calvin Clements Sr. It stars James Stewart and Henry Fonda.

Two of hollywood's greatest, Stewart & Fonda, team up to produce a later Western movie, towards the end of the 'Wild West' era as the Old West moved towards a more civilized time. They meet as adversaries in a very remote area in a small town where there is no law other than what the people there make for themselves.

James Stewart and Hank Fonda are two of America's greatest actors, and Firecreek is a good example of their work. Henry Fonda's men are what would be called regulators.

This is the story of the farmer/sheriff (James Stewart) who'd worn it -till he'd faced one gun too many...the novice young , a mentally-challenged stable boy (Robert Porter), he had to teach or watch to die .

With raging killer biker movies all the counter-culture rage, Westerns during the 1960's and 1970's became far more dark and violent, and yet, some still followed the old John Ford wide-landscape look and feel without conforming to the edgy-sparse vibe of the Spaghetti Western - in full display for FIRECREEK where a gang of subtle yet vicious marauding riders ride into a small town that's literally a main street, and hardly even that...Where James Stewart plays a humble farmer and sheriff-for-hire: substitute for a real lawman, somewhere in an actual town.