This saga of Western Gun-Justice stars after the death of a father and whose three sons go on to run the family ranch , as a very young brave cowboy (Dean Stockwell) , a peaceful quiet youngster called Bless (Jeffrey Hunter) who has aversion to violence and the eldest (Fred MacMurray) who is the strict boss of the strange family . Bess usuallly finds his eldest brother often doing his confrontation for him , as in duels as fighting , and he begins to earn a reputation as a coward . Their mummy (Josephine Hutchinson) dotes on the middle son , attempting to protect him from the world and get him to move back east with her , towards St. Louis , Missouri . Things go awry when some squatters occupy countryside farms . Then Bless is really considered as a coward for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which a member is murdered. Challenge one brother...you answer to all!.

Classic and traditional western deals with three motley brothers who run a prosperous ranch after the death of a rancher , but one of them is seen as a coward because of his reluctance to gunfight ; it is plenty of psychological motives , family conflicts , thrills , emotion and crossfire . It is a medium budget movie with a triangular love story , noisy action , shootouts , stampedes as well as fine players, nice production design and pleasing results. It is still a run-of-the-mill entry in Western genre . Fred McMurray is adequate as elder brother who unjustly censures his youngest brother , this is one of a clutch of acceptable horse operas he made in the forties , in the late 50s and the early sixties , such as ¨Texas Rangers¨, ¨The trail of the lonesome Pine¨, At gunpoint¨, and ¨Good day for a hanging¨. Although MacMurray also played other genres as drama , adventures , wartime , children films , such as : The happiest millionaire , The shaggy dog , Son of Flubber , The absent-minded profesor , The princess come across , The Caine mutiny , Dive bomber , Above suspicion , Murder he says , The miracle of the bells , Alice Adams , The apartment , and Noir film as the classy : Double indemnity . He is accompanied by Jeffrey Hunter who gives a decent acting as the peace-loving young whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice .The movie contains a great support cast , plenty of familiar faces from vintage Westerns such as : Iron Eyes Cody ,John Larch , Kevin Corrigan , Bob Steele , Paul Birch , Chuck Hayward and all of them are outscored by a peach of acting from the veteran Chill Wills .

Atmospheric cinematography in glimmer Technicolor by George Robinson. Evocative and thrilling musical score from Irving Gertz , Henry Russell and Frank Skinner , though uncredited . Well produced by William Alland , the motion picture was professionally directed by Abner Biberman . He directed in sure visual style and he made all kinds of genres, especially Westerns , as in cinema as TV especially . As he directed some films such as : The Night Runner, Behind the High Wall , The Price of Fear , Running Wild , The Looters , The Golden Mistress and a lot of Television episodes from known series as The Virginian , Ironside , Hawaii 5.0 , Laredo , The fugitive, Gunsmoke , Zane Grey , Tightrope, Lloyd Bridges show , Imperium , The outer limits , 77 Sunset Strip and many others . Rating :5.5/10 , decent , acceptable and passable Western , as well as enough entertaining and interesting . Well worth seeing