Directed by Harry Keller. Starring Fred MacMurray, Robert Middleton, John Ericson, Joan Weldon, Skip Homeier, Marie Windsor, Edgar Buchanan, Eduard Franz, Peggy Converse, Lee Van Cleef, Robert Foulk.
When I think of Fred MacMurray, I don't picture him as a Western movie hero I would say the same of Jimmy Stewart. Yet both actors made their fair share of fine Westerns and acquitted themselves well in the genre.
First, I am so lucky to have caught this film in a letterboxed - wide screen - edition, even dubbed in french. Second, I have nothing to add to the other comments - why always repeat the same things the other users did so good ?
Fred MacMurray is the judge in a small Western town. A man named Rudy Hayes (Christopher Dark) has killed a farmer and been found guilty by a jury of his peers, although it's hard to imagine a peer of this unkempt miscreant.
"Day of the Badman" is a decent film and it stars Fred MacMurray...which isn't bad.
There is excitement in town as murderer Rudy Hayes is expected to be sentenced to hang by Judge Jim Scott (Fred MacMurray). The problem is that the violent Hayes family is coming to town.
This routine horse opera from Universal stars Fred MacMurray at the height of his success. He plays Judge Jim Scott, the incorruptible small town hero who has to sentence a killer - and contend with the pressures exerted by the guilty man's family.
"High Noon" inspired many westerns, which I think was very positive, it created a new style. "3.
"Day of the Bad Man" opens with two rough-looking gunhands, Charlie Hayes (Robert Middleton of "The Law and Jake Wade") and his hot-headed brother Howie (Skip Homeier of "Tomorrow the World") riding past a hangman's gallows and into a quiet dusty western town in the early morning hours. They spot Cora Johnson (Marie Windsor of "Two Gun Lady") in blue jeans near a tent behind the town buildings and inquire her about their brother Rudy (Christopher Dark of "Johnny Concho") who has been on trial for the murder of a local rancher.
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