Before this film, Ted Post had made only three theatrical films in his first 18 years as a director: The Peacemaker (1956), The Return of Phileas Fogg (1957), and La leggenda di Tom Dooley (1959). The vast majority of his directorial work was in television. He had worked with Eastwood previously on the TV series Rawhide, was obviously influenced by the Westerns of Sergio Leone but Post adds his own embellishments to this film. His quick push-in on faces for bold close-ups and frenetic editing techniques are all calculated to unsettle the viewer. The brooding mood and sense of menace is also accented by the derelict buildings, the swirling dust, the noise of the wind on the soundtrack and the tumbleweeds blowing around in the street.

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