This rather sanctimonious Western is worth seeing, despite the delivery of awful dialogue delivered by Macdonald Carey about ' salvation '. The opening scenes are good traditional Western scenes, and then Skip Homeier on the run accidentally lames his horse and is taken in by a preacher and his wife, who the moment she sees him looks visibly sexually interested. Then the tension mounts to almost operatic splendour with a monster stallion literally attacking the lot of them ( sexual symbolism anyone ? ) and Skip Homeier gets them all hot and bothered ( that I understand as he exudes erotic charm). Then religion returns as it would in such a sexually charged film, denying what it desires, and the delirious over the top music adds to the manic feel of the film ( imagine Korngold doing a Wagner pastiche ). And not only does Skip Homeier give a fine performance and even puts Patricia Medina in the shade in every sense of the word. It is an excellent example of camp that John Wayne would have hated. There is even a ' miracle in it '. Well worth tracking down. The final lines reveal a sanctimonious return to probably save it from the Hays Code.
Review of Stranger at My Door
