Welcome to Hard Times

On Tuesday I watched Welcome to Hard Times, which is an actual western, and had quite a similar feel to Bad Day at Black Rock. Both were set in little communities with little more than a saloon, a jail and a store along with a few houses. Black Rock was about a village with a secret - a group of villagers had killed a Japanese farmer in retaliation for Pearl Harbour - whereas Hard Times is about a village which can't cope when it's terrorised by a stranger. Directed initially I believe for TV by Burt Kennedy. Henry Fonda, Keenan Wynn, Warren Oates and loads of ace character actors such as Elisha Cook, Royal Dano, Aldo Ray, Lon Chaney and Denver Pyle. Worth watching for all those cameo appearances. (TCM)