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Day of the Badman (1958)

Day of the Badman poster
Directed by
Harry Keller
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 22m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A judge returns to a small western town to sentence a murderer. The killer's brothers threaten the judge to get the verdict changed.

tensedramaticconfrontationalslow-burngrittyseriousstark

What happens

Day of the Badman (shown as Day of the Bad Man on the film's title screen) is a 1958 American Western film directed by Harry Keller and starring Fred MacMurray, Joan Weldon and John Ericson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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