While returning home via stagecoach after a successful sale of herd, Lucas and his boy are riding with a cocksure braggart, arrested and handcuffed to a marshal. Soon the crook's gun-toting associates interrupt a brief stop for rest and water, shooting the marshal, freeing him, taking Lucas' cash and loot on the stagecoach. He also takes Lucas' rifle, a big no-no. Lucas sends his son with the coach and injured marshal, pursuing the taken cash and money. Mainly a fun guest vehicle for Vic Morrow, as the confident, grinning, assured heel, quite aware Conners is coming after him, clearly looking for a gunfight. Leo Gordon wishes Morrow would take him seriously while Walcott is dispatched early when left to try and disrupt the determined Conners. The use of an avalanche and a brilliant strategy involving a plank of wood with a hole just big enough for a pistol handle and a little stick for measuring distance allow Lucas to get the better of his quarry. Morrow's teasing and jawing leaves him the perfect candidate to get a good comeuppance. Clearly Conners didn't want this to resort to violence and such but they went too far. Always good use of hot desert environs to emphasize the conditions of the old west and how treacherous territory can be a nuisance to both straight and crooked folks on both sides of the moral fence.
Review of The Angry Gun
