In the small frontier mining town of Warlock, rancher Abe McQuown's gang of cowboy cutthroats terrorize the peaceful community, humiliating the town's legitimate deputy Sheriff and running him out ...

Westerns, with their built-in themes of morality, were a perfect genre with which to explore this, as was the case with 1959's Warlock. Not only did the Henry Fonda-led drama serve as a metaphor ...