Talk about your essential movies. This one rates right up there with Casablanca, Citizen Kane and Gone With the Wind. In a role that could easily have been painfully over-acted by any other performer, Gary Cooper plays sheriff Will Kane, whose marriage to the stunning Grace Kelly forces him to give up his badge. All is going well until Frank Miller, a man he arrested for murder, goes free and comes gunning for him.
This is a classic story of one man bucking up against evil. In his quest to round up some help, Kane encounters some of the ugliest things found in humanity i.e cowardice, corruption, and ingratitude. Despite all this, he refuses to let Miller and his gang go without a fight. Why? For the simple reason that it’s the right thing to do.