Warlock

August 1880. The heatwave and the dusty fog blur the contours of the border town of Warlock, a lawless place where theft, brawls and crime are the order of the day. The post of deputy sheriff weighs like a curse on whoever dares to occupy it; few have the courage to intervene in the brawls between drunken miners and crooks, or to confront the band of rustlers led by Abe McQuown. But a new gunman has arrived in town. Armed with his gold Colt Frontiers, Clay Blaisedell accepts the challenge of being the new commissioner. With him, and what a fatal shadow, will come Tom Morgan, an unscrupulous player. But perhaps Blaisedell's mettle and revolvers are not enough to establish order in a city that devours a man every morning. Are honor and pride enough to delineate the fragile border between good and evil in a place where not even the unwritten rule of not shooting in the back is respected? Few like Oakley Hall were able to reflect the spirit of a nation forged with duels in the sun, rounds of whiskey, bonds of unbreakable friendship and hatred to the death. Warlock, a true cult piece that transcends the limits of the genre in which it belongs, is that and much more. Narrated with a force and a literary quality that place it far above the usual western, Warlock portrays a mythical place, in which the violence of the still young United States of the nineteenth century extracts the most primitive values ??of man and also the most elevated.