Time for Dying, A (1969) review

Naïve gunslinger Cass (Richard Lapp), away from his beloved Pa, makes a grievous mistake of riding into Silver City, "saving" a girl named Nellie (Anne Randall) from a drunken mob, forced by Judge Roy Bean (Victor Jory) to marry her (because of a lil thing called decency!), then they meet Jesse James (Audie Murphy, who co-produced) and his brothers, and he eventually faces off against a cackling outlaw nicknamed Billy Pimple (Bob Random) ... and loses.  There's plenty of sitcom-level dialogue and sub-par acting in this seemingly unfinished (and underfinanced) Western, but Jory steals all of his scenes as the mercurial "Justice of the Peace" and Murphy's cameo as one of America's most famous criminals is especially memorable and kind of ironic (it was also his last screen appearance).  The ending is depressing, but there is a point to it: Boetticher is lamenting the cruelty of the times among not only men (clearly through violence) ... but women (the final scene is another young lady being fed to the World of Prostitution).