The Bravados

The Bravados (1958) is a Henry King revenge Western you can watch online on iFILM, with Gregory Peck in one of his coldest roles. Rancher Jim Douglass rides a hundred miles into the town of Rio Arriba for one reason: to watch four men hang for the rape and murder of his wife.

The night before the execution, the prisoners break out. Douglass goes after them, tracking the men across the Mexican border and deeper into a place he can't return from. Each killing leaves him a little less human. Stephen Boyd, Henry Silva and a young Lee Van Cleef play the hunted men; Joan Collins is the woman from his past who watches what vengeance does to him.

Less about fast guns than about the bill that revenge runs up, the film turns on a final reveal that recasts everything Douglass has done. If the moral weight of The Searchers is your kind of Western, this earns a look. Stream The Bravados (1958) online on iFILM.