Planned or not, I think it would have been a perfect setup. Not only does the ending feel somewhat unsatisfying to me, there is quite some unfinished business left. On the one hand, the last two guys that tried to lynch Cooper are still free and he wants to track them down. On the other, there is still this issue with the murderers of Rachels husband, which also raped her. She may have said to let bygones be bygones, but if those were to reappear, maybe even with some connection to the judge, and Cooper setting things right... I'm sure there is an interesting story to tell somewhere in there! Too bad the filmmakers left it as is.
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marmac2768
9 years ago
I just watched this movie for the upteenth time and it is really a great western movie. I also thought that their had to be more to this, possibly a "part 2" because of the way it ended. I think that, if this movie had been made in the last 20 years, and Clint was still that age, there would have been another one and maybe a whole franchise of this movie.
I can just see where the two men who were still on the run and Cooper chasing them, catching them and something were to show that they had been involved in the death of Rachel's husband and her rape. I like to see things wrapped up in a nice bow at the end, but that's just me.
I've often wondered why they didn't make a sequel. Of course, Inger Steven's death shortly afterward would have been a blow to trying to do a sequel.
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