The Tin Star

“For $40 a month and a shiny Tin Star…the young sheriff faced the mob alone…except for the angry ex-sheriff who couldn’t watch him die and a hero-worshipping boy who lived only for the day he’d wear a Tin Star of his own!”

In a frontier town in the American West, the sheriff's badge belongs to Ben Owens (Anthony Perkins), a young man who has never had to prove he can wear it. Morgan Hickman (Henry Fonda) rides in as a bounty hunter with years of hard work behind him and takes the time to show Ben what the job demands. Anthony Mann builds the story around that lesson, which is that the badge only counts for as much as the man willing to stand behind it.