Firecreek is a 1968 American Western film[2] directed by Vincent McEveety and starring James Stewart and Henry Fonda, the latter in his first of two roles that year as a villain (the second being Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West).
The supporting cast features Inger Stevens, Dean Jagger, Ed Begley, Jay C. Flippen, Jack Elam and John Qualen.
Offscreen close friends Stewart and Fonda's first film together had been in a section of the episodic musical comedy On Our Merry Way two decades earlier, in which they played two musicians named "Slim" and "Lank", and they would make The Cheyenne Social Club two years after Firecreek.
Howard Thompson of The New York Times called it "a good, sturdy and occasionally powerful little Western", especially praising screenwriter Calvin Clements but claiming, "James Stewart is plain wonderful and Henry Fonda almost matches him.
However, despite the rating and praise for actors James Stewart, Jacqueline Scott, Henry Fonda and Inger Stevens, Ebert felt that "somehow the parts don't quite come together" and "things move at too leisurely a pace".