The Broken Star
He claims it was a fair fight but the marshal of Arizona's Southern Territory Forrester has his doubts. Unknown to Smeed, there was a witness to the murder Nachez.
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While the investigation unfolds, Smeed tries to cover up the evidence and eliminate people who can implicate him. Another deputy Gentry , who has always admired Smeed, defends him to his girlfriend Alvarado but is astonished when Alvarado translates the written eyewitness account from the Spanish by Nachez.
Smeed kidnaps Nachez, taking him to a mine, where he kills him and hides the body. Gentry shows up at the mine but is over-powered by Smeed, tied up, and left to be buried in a cave-in caused by Smeed setting a charge. The marshal arrives with his posse and hunts down Smeed inside the mine, using an alternate entry.
After the Civil War, in a Yankee town five Confederates find trouble when one of them accidentally shoots a local young boy. Two bank robbers abandon their wounded partner to the posse and run with the loot but their partner, after serving time in prison, seeks revenge.
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A District Attorney tries an Indian chief for the murder of an Indian agent, but begins to believe that the chief is possibly being framed by powerful interests who want to start a war between the Indians and the locals. Outlaw Matt Ringo escapes prison and wants to co-opt his former outlaw brother Billy into robbing a Wells Fargo money shipment, but Billy has gone straight, the town Marshal is Wyatt Earp, and the Clinton gang wants in on the deal. A deputy marshal is ordered to investigate the killing of a Mexican ranch hand by a fellow deputy, who claims self-defense.
Using turn of the century forensic science and dogged determination, the deputy breaks down his partner's alibi and discovers that the lawman had killed the rancher for eight thousand dollars in gold that had been hidden in the Mexican's home. Now he must arrest his friend before the Mexican's gunslinging friends can kill him before he's tried for the crime. Written by David Bassler. Every now and then TCM runs these obscure films that turn out to be real finds. The Broken Star, a black and white B western, certainly is a find with Howard Duff as a deputy sheriff gone bad.
Right up front we see Howard Duff shoot down an unarmed man and steal something from his house. Under cover of the badge, Duff tells his story that he shot a suspected rustler who drew on him first. Neither believing or disbelieving him, Sheriff Addison Richards investigates, in much the same manner a shooting team from a modern police force does.
It's then up to another deputy, Bill Williams to bring in his colleague who also is someone who saved his life once.
The film is set in the beginning of the 20th century when the old wild west was becoming somewhat tame. Early forensic science is what sets people's suspicions on Duff in the first place. The Broken Star is a good B western with an adult plot befitting the Fifties, the era of the adult western. Make sure you catch it when next broadcast.
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