Nevada Smith

Martin Landau features, one of three who killed the parents of novice gunman Steve McQueen, the part-Indian title character, found in a Western saloon, a bartender (Bud Cokes) briefly intervening, in producer-director Henry Hathaway’s Nevada Smith, 1966, based on a character in Harold Robbins’ The Carpetbaggers.

Intense cruelty from big actors (Martin Landau, Arthur Kennedy, Karl Malden) as bandits assaulting the parents of Max Sand (Steve McQueen) who arrives too late, in Nevada Smith (1966), directed by Henry Hathaway.

Part-Indian Max (Steve McQueen) getting schooled by retired gunman Jonas Cord (Brian Keith) about the futility of his plan to avenge the murder of his parents, in Henry Hathaway's sprawling Western Nevada Smith, 1966.