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to bring about justice, but he will escape without providing it if he must. Duty to a cause is the guiding principle for a samurai...Death is not relevant; it is, in fact, ennobling if it comes in the service of one’s lord. The
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Macreedy snatches it. It is his unsent draft of a telegram. Macreedy and Velie tell
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Doc and Pete enlist Liz to help
Macreedy to escape under cover of darkness. Hector is standing guard outside the hotel; Pete lures him into the office, where Doc Velie knocks him unconscious. Liz drives Macreedy out of town but stops at Adobe Flat. Macreedy realizes that he has been set up. When
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Macreedy tries to telephone the state police, but Pete refuses to put the call through. Doc Velie admits that something terrible happened four years ago, but Smith has everyone too terrified to speak up. Velie offers his hearse to
Macreedy to leave town, but Hector disables it by yanking out the
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magazine's reviewer wrote, "Considerable excitement is whipped up in this suspense drama, and fans who go for tight action will find it entirely satisfactory. Besides telling a yarn of tense suspense, the picture is concerned with a social message on civic complacency."
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winner. Brennan (1936, 1938, 1940), Jagger (1950) and Tracy (1938, 1939) had all won
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After Smith and Hector leave, Macreedy reveals that the loss of his arm had left him wallowing in self-pity, but
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Smith starts shooting at him, Macreedy shelters behind the Jeep. Liz rushes to Smith despite
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because Schary thought that widescreen would emphasize the menace of the isolated town. Temperatures on location were over 100 °F (38 °C). On August 9, the cast and crew relocated to the MGM studio lot in
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on December 8, 1954. The film was released nationally in January 1955. According to MGM records, it earned US$ 1,966,000 in the US and Canada, and $ 1,822,000 elsewhere, making the studio a profit of $ 947,000.
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