Silver Lode (1954) review

A posse of U.S. Marshals, led by McCarty (Dan Duryea), rides into the town of Silver Lode to interrupt the wedding of Dan Ballard (John Payne) and Rose (Lizabeth Scott), accusing Dan of murder - at first the town supports his claims of innocence, but then turn on him (with the exception of a prostitute, played by the gorgeous Dolores Moran).  What starts as a pretty normal Western then becomes something more insidious: an allegory for McCarthyism in which someone is Guilty Until Proven Innocent and mob mentality replaces a sense of fairness.  The original screenplay's by Karen DeWolf who was blacklisted at the time (like Dalton Trumbo and others) ... and this is her form of revenge.