Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
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“If this story ain't true... it shoulda been!”

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1941