The Purple Hills

The Purple Hills

Every Indian arrow pointed to The Purple Hills where hate-for-hate and gun-for-gun scorched this land of treachery!

1961 · 60 min · ★ 7.0 · Western

When a bounty hunter kills an outlaw for the reward, he has to deal with both a man falsely claiming he made the kill, and the revengeful brother of the dead man.

Directed by Maury Dexter · Written by Edith Cash Pearl

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