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6.7/10   569 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Lillie Hayward (screenplay)
Luke Short (adaptation)
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Release Date:
9 November 1948 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
LUSTY! VIOLENT! SAVAGE! more
Plot:
When a shady-looking stranger rides into town to join his old friend it is assumed he is a hired gun... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Robert Mitchum ... Jim Garry

Barbara Bel Geddes ... Amy Lufton
Robert Preston ... Tate Riling

Walter Brennan ... Kris Barden
Phyllis Thaxter ... Carol Lufton

Frank Faylen ... Jake Pindalest
Tom Tully ... John Lufton
Charles McGraw ... Milo Sweet
Clifton Young ... Joe Shotten
Tom Tyler ... Frank Reardon
George Cooper ... Fred Barden
Tom Keene ... Ted Elser (as Richard Powers)
Bud Osborne ... Cap Willis
Zon Murray ... Nels Titterton

Robert Bray ... Bart Daniels
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Additional Details

Runtime:
88 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In 1953, RKO reissued this film theatrically on a double bill with another western, Fort Apache (1948) starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda, with the tag line "Two Rip-Roaring Action Hits!" more
Quotes:
Jim Garry: It starts with your double-cross of a bunch of jug-headed farmers and the hiring of gun hands. It goes on to your making love to a man's daughter to get her to turn against her own father, and your try for Lufton today. It's past that, to the death of Kris Barden's son, and it winds up right here, with Reardon waiting outside to see if I go with you, or if he shoots me in the back. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Dead Man (1995) more

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This movie deserves better appreciation than it has gotten., 14 February 2000
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Author: TheHenock from U.S.A.

The VHS video of this movie is a colorised version of the original thanks to Ted Turner. I refuse to watch it in colour, so I turn off the colour attributes of my TV and enjoy this movie in Black and White. Without the distraction of colour, one gets to enjoy a great story line, some wonderful performances by Robert Mitchum and Barbara Bel Geddes, and one of Robert Wise's directorial gems.

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