Westbound

As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood; Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town; defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him. At any cost. As chiseled and bone-lean as its star; Westbound is the sixth of seven Westerns Scott made with director Budd Boetticher; films that — along with the James Stewart-Anthony Mann Westerns — helped remake the genre in the 50s; substituting grit and veracity for white-hat heroics.