Face of a Fugitive

Face of a Fugitive is a 1959 Western film directed by Paul Wendkos. It stars Fred MacMurray and Lin McCarthy and was based on the short story Long Gone by Peter Dawson, the nom de plume of Jonathan H. Glidden older brother of Luke Short. Dawson was the author of 120 Western short stories and novelettes as well asbook length Western serials. The working title was Justice Ends with a Gun.

Danny explains that he has brought Jim a horse, and they flee. As they ride off the deputy produces a hidden derringer from an ankle holster, aiming at them. He mortally wounds Danny who kills the deputy. The two board another train by hiding in the baggage car. Jim explains his escape plans to Danny en route, but Danny dies. Jim places his brothers corpse in a mail sack and throws it off a bridge passing over a river and vows to be alone in the future.The trains first stop is the Enterprize Mine where Jim changes into his fathers business suit which Danny brought, and Jim reboards the train as a passenger. The only vacant seat is next to Alice Gina Gillespie a sixyearold girl who has been visiting her grandfather, an employee at the Enterprise mine. The talkative Alice guesses that as she does not recognise Jim, he must be a visiting mining inspector. Using the name Ray Kincaid, Larsen plays along with her guess and gathers information on the next town, Tangle Blue, Wyoming. Mark Riley Lin McCarthy, an earnest but inexperienced sheriff who is young Alices uncle, and a group of deputies stop the train to search for the deputys murderer, but they are satisfied with Ray Kincaid the mining inspector due to his travelling with Alice. The deputies say that the wanted poster depicting the deputys murderer with Jim Larsens face will be arriving on the next days train and everyone will be checked entering or leaving the town. ........

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