If you're interested in DeForrest Kelley's earlier cowboy roles, Warlock (1959) is a great showcase.

[RookieBatman]

I think it's a really good movie in general, with a nice variety of interesting characters that don't completely fit into the usual western archetypes, but Kelley has a much bigger featured role in this movie than he does in something like Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, where he's little more than a background actor.

 

[Spock's Barber]

“I’m a doctor, not a flea bitten range bum.”

 

[Delta Vega]

Great western, one of my favourites

 

[Maurice]

Here's De in an early scene (LINK).

 

[RookieBatman]

Oh, and I forgot to mention that the movie also features original series guest stars Whit Bissell and Frank Gorshin.

 

[Greg Cox]

Thanks for the tip. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

I'm guessing there are no actual warlocks in it?

 

[J.T.B.]

I have also posted about this movie here somewhere years ago. One of the better '50s psychological Westerns, IMO.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that the movie also features original series guest stars Whit Bissell and Frank Gorshin.

And non-speaking parts for Gary Lockwood and Roy Jenson.

I'm guessing there are no actual warlocks in it?

No, it's just a strange name for a troubled mining town.

 

[RookieBatman]

No, it's just a strange name for a troubled mining town.

Yeah, that is one thing I find a bit puzzling about the movie, is that the fantasy-style name (of the movie and the town) has absolutely nothing to do with any other part of the movie. It was well before the Satanic Panic when people might actively boycott a movie if they thought it had witchcraft in it, but it's still the case that getting confused about what genre a movie is if you only see the title can make a movie suffer with less informed viewers. (Wasn't that one of the issues for Serenity?)

 

[J.T.B.]

^Miners sometimes gave odd and colorful names to their claims, and the towns that sprang up after successful strikes often adopted that name. That's how you get Tombstone and Oracle Arizona, for example. I think the audience was kind of aware of eccentric place names in Westerns back then, and hey, it made a cool name for a movie.

 

[XCV330]

^Miners sometimes gave odd and colorful names to their claims, and the towns that sprang up after successful strikes often adopted that name. That's how you get Tombstone and Oracle Arizona, for example. I think the audience was kind of aware of eccentric place names in Westerns back then, and hey, it made a cool name for a movie.

My grandfather came from a town out in Idaho that got named by the first five people to the new proposed post office using a letter from their first name.