The Tin Star is an Anthony Mann.
This film is about a man who teaches a young man to stay alive in a dangerous job.
He also shows him how groups are easily manipulated. Violence often begins this way. That's why he prefers to keep a certain distance.
Like most movie heroes, he travels alone, but he is lucky, he finds a family on the way.
The woman and the boy are not well accepted in the town. They're mexican. As he binds to this family he overcomes his own cultural limitations.