One Foot In Hell

1960, Movie, NR, 89 mins

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This story first came to light as "The Last Man" on TV's "Playhouse 90" in 1957. Ladd stars as an offbeat hero who schemes to destroy a town because its citizens refused to help when his wife was dying. Now consumed with guilt, the townspeople offer Ladd the job of deputy sheriff. Killing the sheriff and then claiming that his death was the result of an ambush, Ladd takes over the town's top law enforcement job. This enables him to bring together an unlikely group of misfits (Murray, Coe, O'Herlihy, and Michaels) to help him rob the town's bank and kill those people who earlier refused him help. After pulling off the robbery, Ladd decides to do away with his cohorts as well, but Murray polishes off Ladd first. The trite, implausible plot isn't helped by Clark's plodding direction. Nonetheless, Ladd handles the role of the deranged figure well, wearing a faint smirk that indicates the emotion boiling beneath his calm exterior. leave a comment
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