Manages to combine trippy, erotic, and violent imagery quite successfully. Thematically, it takes a jab at the fetishization of Asian culture from Westerners; stylistically, comparisons to David Lynch are quite apt.

Buchanan rides alone into Agry, a town in the border between California and Mexico, and gets involved in a feud that might just lead him to the gallows. Carried by a brilliant script and a strong Randolph Scott performance, this is another success in Scott's and Budd Boetticher's series of films.

Wow, I can't believe Charlie Chaplin started his career in the slapstick version of Nightcrawler! Certainly not one of his best films, but it is quite interesting to see Chaplin in his first film role, without his tramp persona.