The Bravados is a 1958 American Cinemascope Western film (color by DeLuxe) directed by Henry King, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Collins.

He rides into Rio Arriba, where these four men, Alfonso Parral, Bill Zachary, Ed Taylor, and Lujan, are in jail awaiting execution for an unrelated murder.

In town, Douglass happens upon Josefa Velarde, whom he met and fell in love with nearly five years previously in New Orleans.

Josefa later learns, from Rio Arriba's priest, the truth of how Douglass' wife died.

He waits until the townspeople are at church, then while pretending to check the men's height and weight, stabs the sheriff in the back.

The sheriff manages to shoot and kill him, but the inmates escape and take a young woman named Emma as a hostage.

A posse rides out immediately, but Douglass - with his extensive experience trailing these outlaws - waits until morning; he anticipates one of the prisoners will stay behind to cut off everybody at a pass, which is what happens.

The two remaining fugitives reach the house of John Butler, a prospector and Douglass' neighbor.

Douglass points to Lujan's sack of coins and tells him that whoever killed his wife stole that from his ranch.

Director Henry King, who headed the troupe that journeyed down to the photogenic areas of Mexico's Michoacán and Jalisco provinces, has seen to it that his cast and story move at an unflagging pace...The canyons, towering mountains, forests and waterfalls of the natural locales used, make picturesque material for the color cameras.