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Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Captivating movie !

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Not as Good as the Boetticher-Scott Films, This One Inevitably Draws Comparison as it is Rich in Conflict and Moral Regards. There are Some Attractions in this Above Average Western. Technicolor, Randolph Scott, and Lee Marvin are the Highlights. Surfacing from the Simplistic Yet Classic Tale of Greed and Men of Varying Scruples, are Some Rich Side-Characters from Familiar Character Actors.Donna Reed is the Love Interest and Only in Hollywood is it Required She Falls in Love with the Honorable Soldier in an A Day and A Night. The Romance is Quick and Not Really Believable and is the Movies Shortcoming.Overall, Worth a Watch Because it is Better than the Standard Stuff of Westerns in the Fifties, A Decade that Saw a Plethora of Pictures Set in the Wild Frontier. Fans of Scott Should Like it and Western Movie Fans can Add this to a Checklist of the Better Ones.

A troop of Confederate soldiers, led by Randolph Scott, attack a wagon train in Nevada carrying gold for the Union Army. They kill the soldiers and take the gold, only to discover immediately after that the war has been over for a month. The troops now find themselves on the run with the gold, pursued by a posse. But is the posse out to bring the men to justice or just to steal the gold for themselves?Nice Technicolor western with a good cast. Randolph Scott always does good work and he's backed up here by a fine bunch of actors, including Lee Marvin, Frank Faylen, Richard Denning, Ray Teal, and Claude Jarman, Jr. Donna Reed is lovely as usual. The plot's pretty straightforward and predictable. This isn't a Mann or Boetticher western but it's pleasant enough.

In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart (Randolph Scott) attack the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry and the soldiers are killed. The only wounded survivor tells that the war ended one month ago, and the group decides to take the gold and meet their liaison that knew that the war ended but did not inform the troop. The harsh Rolph Bainter (Lee Marvin) kills the greedy man and the soldiers flee in his wagon driven by Major Stewart. When they meet a posse chasing them, Stewart gives wrong information to misguide the group; however, they have an accident with the wagon and lose the horses. They decide to stop a stagecoach and force the driver to transport them, but the posse returns and they are trapped in the station with the passenger. They realize that the men are not deputies and have no intention to bring them to justice but take the stolen gold. "Hangman's Knot" is a simple but effective Western in the after American Civil War period mainly about lack of communication and greed. Randolph Scott and Lee Marvin in the beginning of his career perform their usual type of characters, a fair rough man and a bad character. The story is engaging with many conflictive situations and the screenplay is very tight. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "O Laço do Carrasco" ("The Hangman's Noose")

Randolph Scott leads a group of Confederate raiders who rob a gold shipment and kill the Union Cavalry escort. Before one of them dies though, he informs the group that the Civil War's been over for a few weeks. They're outlaws now.That fact is brought home when a group of "deputies" lead by Ray Teal and Guinn Williams go out hunting the Confederates. They're not law officers in fact, but raiders looking to steal the gold and kill Scott and his crew. Scott and his crew take shelter in a stagecoach station and the fun begins.Everybody's in conflict here. Randolph Scott has eyes for stage passenger Donna Reed and her fiancée Richard Denning doesn't like it. Lee Marvin, who's one of Scott's men, also has eyes for Reed and willing to take a direct approach. The folks who run the station, Clem Bevans and Jeanette Nolan, don't like being caught up in the shooting at their station, but don't like the Confederates in particular as their Union sympathizers and Nolan's husband and son have both been killed in the war. Even the bad guys are arguing over just what approach to take in dealing with the Confederates and none of them trust the others. All this with the two groups shooting at each other.For 81 minutes a lot of plot is packed in and it's nicely done. Very tight editing, not a word or action wasted. Randolph Scott stands rigidly as the moral centerpiece of the film. Donna Reed, a year away from her Academy Award in From Here To Eternity, does well as a former Union Army nurse going west with her fiancée Richard Denning whom she learns is not all he seems. Lee Marvin gives a harbinger of things to come with his portrayal of a man quite ready and eager to become an outlaw.One of Randolph Scott's best westerns.