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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Gordon Ray Young (story)
Michael Hogan (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
29 September 1944 (USA) more
Tagline:
The Saturday Evening Post Story Comes to Life! more
Plot:
When a stranger arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who sent for him has been murdered... more | add synopsis
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Entertaining Western more (31 total)

Cast

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John Wayne ... Rocklin

Ella Raines ... Arleta 'Arly' Harolday
Ward Bond ... 'Judge' Robert Garvey

George 'Gabby' Hayes ... Dave
Audrey Long ... Clara Cardell
Elisabeth Risdon ... Miss Elizabeth Martin
Donald Douglas ... Harolday (as Don Douglas)
Paul Fix ... Bob Clews
Russell Wade ... Clint Harolday
Emory Parnell ... Sheriff Jackson
Raymond Hatton ... Zeke
Harry Woods ... George Clews
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Additional Details

Runtime:
87 min | West Germany:95 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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This was the first John Wayne film to be shown on American network television. more
Quotes:
Rocklin: I never feel sorry for anything that happens to a woman. more
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Spoofed in Tall in the Trap (1962) more

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Entertaining Western, 8 August 2005
8/10
Author: panamint from United States

Perfectly paced film. Many older films as well as new ones are not as successful as they could be due to poor pacing. It's hard to define pacing - it is maybe in the editing, the director rushing or slowing down the actors, or the way the camera shots are set up. Whatever "pacing" is, this film is a good example of it.

This film makes very good use of character actors (Fix, Gabby, and the others). The producers trusted them enough to really feature them in some scenes, and they deliver. It seems that most producers (in the 1940's as well as today) are afraid to take the camera off the film's star for fear of not making big box-office.

Wayne does a great job in a no-nonsense, straight-arrow role. It is amazing how he could make such a character charismatic, rather than wooden. Ella Raines and Wayne should have made more movies together because they had good chemistry. More importantly Raines was capable of portraying one of the major character traits of the western United States expansion- strong women.

Film buffs can view "Tall in the Saddle" as good movie-making, but anyone can just view it as good entertainment and not even stop to analyze anything. Perhaps that is the genius of a film like this.

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