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6.3/10   231 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Kenneth Gamet (screenplay)
Ernest Haycox (based upon the novel)
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Release Date:
2 December 1951 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
SIX-GUN SHOWDOWN IN THE SIERRAS (original print ad - all caps)
Plot:
A small farmer and rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerfull neighbour. When the neighbour... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Whispering Wind and the Profit Margin: A Petition
 (From The Auteurs. 24 October 2009, 6:36 AM, PDT)

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Surprisingly, a bit limp. more (13 total)

Cast

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Randolph Scott ... Owen Merritt

Joan Leslie ... Laurie Bidwell Isham
Ellen Drew ... Nan Melotte
Alexander Knox ... Will Isham
Richard Rober ... Fay Dutcher
John Russell ... Hugh Clagg
Alfonso Bedoya ... Cultus Charley
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams ... Bourke Prine
Clem Bevans ... Pay Lankershim
Cameron Mitchell ... George Vird
Richard Crane ... Juke Vird
Frank Sully ... Lee Repp
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Outcast (UK)
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Runtime:
87 min
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Language:
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Tennessee Ernie Ford was brought in for one brief scene to sing the title song. He was, at this time, a new and relatively unknown singer. This was his first film appearance. more
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Surprisingly, a bit limp., 20 August 2009
5/10
Author: planktonrules from Bradenton, Florida

I love Randolph Scott westerns and have seen most of his films. However, unlike the vast majority of his wonderful films, this one left me feeling rather indifferent. Some of it is because the plot is oh so familiar, some of it is because the villains aren't particularly believable or interesting (Alexander Knox and Richard Rober were simply too bland for their roles) but I think a lot of it was because the motivations of the baddies were just too vague. It was like they were bad because they were caricatures--not real people. Sure, Knox's character was supposed to be jealous...but this didn't seem enough to explain his actions. And, oddly, for once, Randolph Scott also seemed aimless--at least for part of the film.

Another problem, and I've seen this in a couple other Scott films is that the stunt doubles simply didn't look like the people they were doubling for in the film. While the difference between the stunt man and Scott wasn't as bad as the one in I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA!, it was pretty close. Again and again during the fight at the cabin by the waterfall, you could clearly see it wasn't him.

Despite all these problems, I am not saying that this is a bad western---it isn't a particularly inspired or interesting one. And, from Randolph Scott you just wouldn't expect ordinary. This was 100% ordinary.

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