The Lawless Breed (1952)

With this movie, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the episode of The Brady Bunch where Bobby sees Jesse James as a hero so his parents bring in the offspring of two of James’s victims to set him right. “A mean, dirty killer” is how I feel John Wesley Hardin probably should be remembered as, but here we have Rock Hudson playing him heroically, someone who only killed a couple of men because he had to. I guess we’re supposed to ignore the fact that Hardin himself claimed to have killed at least 42 men. It’s an okay western that’s made better by having Hudson as its lead.