At the time it was called a “revisionist” western. Now it seems like a return to classicism—a bad man who thinks he has reformed returns to his old ways in order to revenge the death of his best friend. “Clintessence” TIME called it, and the actor-director achieved his masterpiece with this dark, brooding tale of souls seeking redemption but doomed by their flawed natures to a tragic outcome.
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