Gun Smoke (1931)

Gun Smoke: Directed by Edward Sloman. With Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, William ‘Stage’ Boyd, Eugene Pallette. Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.

“If Tarantino had been alive in Japan in 1967he would have made this. Sinister, opaque, disturbing and dodgy on so many levels, yet thereu0026#39;s genius in the cruelty”