Build a movie plot around this: who does roy thinnes'character battle? Moon (Henry Silva)
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This film puts an interesting twist on the horror genre by placing the storyline in the American West of the 1800s.Rev. John Keyes (Roy Thinnes) and his wife Lorna (Lynn Loring) have broken a wagon wheel and are stranded in the arid desert while traveling on their way to John's new post as a preacher. Unrelenting sun and dehydration have them nearly ready to succumb to the elements, when a handful of citizens from the out-of-the-way town of San Melas happen by and rescue them.Under the care of the townspeople and in particular the town patriarch Caleb (Ray Milland), his hauntingly beautiful mute daughter Deliverance (Yvette Mimieux) and Bethia (Gloria Grahame) John quickly recovers but his wife Lorna continues to suffer recurring headaches, weakness and general ill health. Her illness postpones their moving on to John's awaiting post. Deliverance is seen fashioning a wax doll in the image of John's wife in her workshed where she makes home made candles.Deliverance is showing a growing attraction to John, something that doesn't pass the notice of his wife, who becomes insistent that they leave as soon as possible despite her illness, to John's awaiting post in another town. John is conflicted, because he is also finding himself attracted to Deliverance, and is becoming enamoured of the townspeople and their adoration of him. He finds their ways quaint and old fashioned - Caleb explains that they all migrated from New England to start new lives in the West, thus bringing old fashioned ways with them.John gives a sermon that seems to have sparked new life in the townspeople and even brings about a miracle, healing a crippled boy. The townspeople don't want John to leave and proceed to rebuild the town church, which had burned down the year before; they ask him to stay and replace the pastor who had died. John's wife, however, makes him refuse the offer and he sees her becoming more and more unreasonable and shrill about leaving. He chalks it up to her serious illness getting worse. When they are finally ready to...