has a basic morality play via lean suspense concept that puts it in a similar wheelhouse of High Noon but also has some deceptively complicated character work and weaves existential concerns about marriage and financial desperation (and even an eventual literal spiritual cleansing) underneath the moral codes and graceful genre surface provided by leonard. i'm a fairly simple man, i see glenn ford smirking and hear a western theme song describing what's happening on the screen and i'm satisfied.