The first original POLITICAL WESTERN movie -and the greatest earthquake's cinema masterpiece- of all times: an allegorical documentary and testament about Power and the corruption of the Army and the Justice which leads the psychologically -and mentaly ill, psychotic- politicians to crush people and nations, leading themselves to the ultimate fire of nihilistic annihilation, a catharsis and a new birth for the rest of the society. Based on a story devised by the American novelist and writer Frank Fowler (who became famous under the pen-name Borden Chase and was a former driver for the gangster Frankie Yale when employed during the prohibition era under Al Capone who liquidated him just before the crisis of 1929... with Chase managing to escape death under the fire of machine-guns)! The original story was adapted for the wide screen by the prolific screenwriters Charles Robert Douglas Hardy Andrews & David Wollf (Ben Maddow). Filmed mainly at Ray Corrigan's studio-ranch in Simi Valley (Ventura County) and at Chatsworth, Los Angeles in CALIFORNIA, the stunning movie, considered as a Revisionist Western that opened the raod for the genre of spaghetti westerns, is directed by Henry Levin. There seem to be many similirities and connections in the plot of this film with TEXAS (1941), also starring both Glenn Ford and William Holden.