If you loved The Misfits, try The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by John Huston, and they sit in Western territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Misfits, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean is

This frontier justice comic seems to believe its own saloon-law is the law of the land. In a lawless patch of Texas, a flamboyant judge turns his courtroom into a one-man town hall, meting out sentences with a sense of theater no statute ever required. Admittedly it runs a little long for a hanging judge.

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