In a dusty, unregulated town on the West Texas frontier, an outlaw (Paul Newman) sets himself up—after completing a mass revenge killing—as a sort of vigilante justice of the peace. Huston’s final Western is an ambling, charming shaggy-dog story peppered with outbursts of violence, anchored by a performance by Newman at the height of his powers, and buttressed by a stellar supporting cast: Stacy Keach as an albino hit man, Anthony Perkins as a priest, Ava Gardner as an actress the judge lusts after from afar, and Huston himself as a grizzled mountain man who travels with a domesticated bear. From a screenplay by John Milius.