LAS CRUCES — One of the strangest Western movies I’ve ever seen held its premiere not in Hollywood but in downtown Las Cruces, 60 years ago on Nov. 3.

Last week, it returned to the big screen at the Rio Grande Theatre, where I sat with a tub of popcorn and a cold beer amid a crowd of over 75 people — including Teddy Gregory, one of the movie’s two surviving cast members and its cinematographer.

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