Lew Ayres

Teresa Wright

Victor Jory

Jacqueline White

Jimmy Hunt

Barry Kelley

Duncan Renaldo

William Bakewell

Milton Parsons

Frank Matts

Felipe Turich

Edwin Rand

Vito Scotti

Chuck Roberson

Rico Alaniz

George Brand

Bob Burrows

Bob Castro

Edward Coch

Paul Fierro

Alex Gerry

Gil Herman

Pepe Hern

Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.

Eddie Le Baron

Kay Lee

Tommy Lee

Manuel Lopez

Paul Marion

Tina Menard

Alberto Morin

Charles Morton

Peter Ortiz

Paul Regas

Rosa Turich

Juan Varro

Harry J. Vejar

Francisco Villalobos

Edward Cronjager

Daniele Amfitheatrof

Niven Busch

John Sturges

Edward Donahue

Charles S. Thompson

Howard Wilson

Howard Lydecker

William Flannery

John Grubbs

Theodore Lydecker

Dick Tyler Sr.

Mary Wills

John McCarthy Jr.

Bob Mark

Peggy Gray

Louise Landmier

Howard Smit

Drama

Western

Crime

The Capture

Showtime Properties

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Injured "Vanner" (Lew Ayres) arrives in a barn where he meets a priest. The holy man (Victory Jory) suggests he might be more comfortable in the house and upon arrival, listens to his rather complicated story. He used to work in the oilfields of Mexico when he apprehended a man he believed was implicated in a payroll robbery. The man was duly taken into custody but perished shortly thereafter. Though not responsible, "Vanner" is troubled. His engagement goes the way of the dodo and he quits his job, setting off for the small-holding home of the man's widow. Ostensibly just a homeless factotum, he meets "Ellen" (Teresa Wright) and her young son "Mike" (Jimmy Hunt) just as they have advertised for someone to help get their 300-odd head of cattle to market. Briefly, what now ensues is a sort of reversal of the "Shane" story, with she the distant and aloof character - a scenario that is only worsened when she declares that she knows who he is and forgiveness is far from her mind. Perhaps the solution is for them to work together as maybe just maybe, he got it wrong in the first place? This is actually quite a decent little thriller until the last fifteen minutes, which really don't make a great deal of sense at all and appear designed to maximise the dramatic conclusion rather than have the story add up. The acting and writing are all adequate and John Sturges keeps it moving along well enough - it's just that underwhelming denouement that really does let it down.

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