Like "High Sierra" before it, "Colorado Territory" is a laconic portrait of a lonely gunman at theendof his tether, and the fact that McCrea, Hollywood's favorite white-hatted good guy, is playing against type adds to the film's emotional complexity.
Opened earlier this summer, and modelled on Japan's little local police stations, Columbia's koban is an attempt to prevent crime by tackling some ofthe things that cause it: broken families, children who stop going to school, the failure of communities to help people at theendof their tether.