So how is the individual (Gary Cooper) who begs people from the town to help him stop the bad guys, gets no cooperation from anyone and has to fight it alone, communistic? the individual is nothing in a commie society!
If it was a commie flick, Gary Cooper would have gotten everyone from the government to capture the gang going after him, torture them and enslave their family in a gulag!
The screen writer stated that he wanted Frank Miller to be a stand in for Joe McCarthy, with Gary Cooper playing a leftist "courageous" enough to take on McCarthyism.