The Halliday Brand (UA, 1957)

  It has its points   The Halliday Brand, director Joseph H Lewis’s penultimate feature film (it came between 7th Cavalry and Terror in a Texas Town), was a self-consciously arty attempt at a psychowestern which, however, is overwrought and descends into melodrama.   Though only fourth-billed, Ward Bond was the real star, as the tyrannical patriarch […]