The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
Henry Hathaway directs John Wayne in this western about a family of moon shiners living in the mountains. John Wayne tries to romance the heroine but she is not having any of it while he is still swearing to hunt down and kill his father for abandoning him and his mother while she was sick and dying.
Beyond the basic plot of the returning father there is a pretty heavy Christian allegory going on here with shepherds, a blind woman being cured and a general theme of forgiveness. Despite the heavy allegorical content there is not a huge amount to comment on this film one way or another, it is suitably well made but not outstandingly so.
3/5 not bad but no great shakes either.
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