An Eye for an Eye

3/21/2026

**_Vengeance Western in the shadow of the awesome Sierra Nevadas_** Robert Lansing and Patrick Wayne star as bounty hunters seeking their wicked prey (Slim Pickens). If there’s any doubt as to how evil the latter is, the opening scene removes it. Steely-eyed Lansing is surprisingly good as the laconic protagonist. You might remember him as Gary Seven in the Star Trek episode “Assignment: Earth,” which he did shortly after this movie. He went on to costar in “Empire of the Ants” ten years later wherein his character’s range was limited to grim and grimmer. Meanwhile Patrick Wayne is fine in the role of the sidekick; I don’t get where critics say he was miscast or that his acting was lousy. The first half is pretty much as good as any 60s’ Western you could name, featuring brutal a