One Foot In Hell [DVD]

In 1960, James B. Clark directed Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy in 'One Foot in Hell'. Dolores Michaels, Barry Coe, Larry Gates wrote the screenplay with Aaron Spelling and Sydney Boehm. The duration is approximately 86 minutes. The action takes place in a small town in the American West, shortly after the Civil War. Mitch Garrett (Alan Ladd) has just lost his pregnant wife due to lack of money to buy the medicine she needed. Consumed by hatred because no one in the town helped him, Mitch decides to take revenge: first he kills the sheriff and then takes the lead of a gang of outlaws (Murray, Coe, O'Herlihy and Michaels) to rob the bank and engulf the town. in the ruin The script of this little-known western is signed 'in collaboration with Sydney Boehm' by the very famous television producer Aaron Spelling (Holiday at Sea, Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch...) and presents the psychological, unhealthy side and violent of westerns, something unusual in the films of the time. Alan Ladd takes on the role of the avenger, which he would repeat two years later in 13 West Street. As a whole, the film can be considered a precedent for Clint Eastwood's 'Inferno de Cowardes'.