The first tip-off is the title: “Murder at Yellowstone City” is not your standard-issue shoot-’em-up. Rather, director Richard Gray’s well-crafted and handsomely mounted indie is as much a solidly …
’s well-crafted and handsomely mounted indie is as much a solidly constructed mystery as it is it a conventionally satisfying oater, with much to recommend to fans of either genre who rarely get to sample such a mix. Indeed, outside of Henry Hathaway’s “Five Card Stud” and the lamentably short-lived 2003 TV series “Peacemakers,” it’s hard to recall many other scenarios that suggest what might have resulted had Zane Grey and Agatha Christie bellied up to the bar and swapped ideas.
And then there is Sheriff James Ambrose , a stern ex-soldier who isn’t given to unreasonable brutishness, but feel feels totally confident in his ability to keep the peace because of his fearsome reputation. Unfortunately, that attitude leads him to immediately assume that, when there is a murder in Yellowstone City, a newcomer simply must be responsible because he’d be “the only man who doesn’t know what I’ll do to him.
Cicero winds up behind bars after some of the prospector’s gold is suspiciously uncovered in his room. But Alice doubts his guilt after ministering to him in jail, and continues to plead his case to Thaddeus after Cicero effects an unauthorized release. As the stranger does his best to avoid recapture, two more murders occur. Ambrose sees this as further proof that his gut instincts were correct. Thaddeus, however, is inclined to pick up a shovel and visit the graveyard.
The various shootouts and action scenes scattered throughout the final third of “Murder at Yellowstone City” are excitingly and, better still, believably staged. And the filmmakers see no need to spell everything out for us. All we need is a brief glimpse of Cicero’s horribly scarred back to fully appreciate what he’s already survived.
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