The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 89% of the 101 1940s western movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes88%
Metacritic82/100
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
214 audience votes
Key crew
- John FordDirector
- Laurence StallingsScreenplay
- Frank S. NugentScreenplay
- Richard HagemanOriginal Music Composer
- Robert NathanWriter
Cast
- John WayneRobert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower
- Pedro ArmendárizPedro 'Pete' Roca Fuerte
- Harry Carey Jr.William Kearney ('The Abilene Kid')
- Ward BondPerley 'Buck' Sweet
- Mae MarshMrs. Perley Sweet
- Mildred NatwickThe Mother
- Jane DarwellMiss Florie
- Guy KibbeeJudge
- Dorothy FordRuby Latham
- Ben JohnsonPosse man #1
- Charles HaltonOliver Latham
- Hank WordenDeputy Curly
