The Bull Rings Sunday Feature Film: Four Faces West, 1948 , Joel McCrea, Frances Dee & Charles Bickford Four Faces West is a 1948 Western film starring Joel McCrea , his real-life wife Frances Dee , and Charles Bickford . It is based on the novel PasΓ³ por aquΓ by Eugene Manlove Rhodes . Its plot concerns a down-on-his-luck cowboy who robs a bank. For its genre the film is unusual in that not a single shot is ever fired. Ross McEwen quietly robs a bank in the New Mexico town of Santa Maria, taking the banker Frenger with him, then letting him go a few miles away, minus boots but with an I.O.U. for the $2000 he has taken. When he gets back to town, Frenger offers a reward of $3000, dead or alive. Pat Garrett , the new marshal, warns the bounty hunters against unnecessary shooting, particularly in the back. McEwen is bitten by a rattlesnake before he can board a train, where he is helped by a passeng...