Raoul Walsh injects his expected artistry in the otherwise journeyman western
Along the Great Divide
. Feeling responsible for his father's death, marshal Kirk Douglas seeks redemption. He gets his chance when he saves murder suspect Walter Brennan from a lynch mob. The grateful Brennan accompanies Douglas to another town, where he can get a fair trial. Though found guilty, Brennan is rescued when Douglas nails the real killer.
was Kirk Douglas' first western (he'd been rejected for the Montgomery Clift role in
Red River
)--and, need one add, hardly the last.