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Man Without a Star (1955)
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Release Date:
10 April 1955 (Japan)
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Tagline:
a love-bargain is like barbed-wire...fight it and you'll get hurt!
Plot:
Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East...
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Barbed Wire
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Drifter
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Ranch
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Friendship
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Homestead
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A rollicking, fast paced western
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Kirk Douglas | ... | Dempsey Rae | |
| Jeanne Crain | ... | Reed Bowman | |
| Claire Trevor | ... | Idonee | |
| William Campbell | ... | Jeff Jimson ('Texas') | |
| Richard Boone | ... | Steve Miles | |
| Jay C. Flippen | ... | Strap Davis | |
| Myrna Hansen | ... | Tess Cassidy | |
| Mara Corday | ... | Moccasin Mary | |
| Eddy Waller | ... | Tom Cassidy (as Eddy C. Waller) | |
| Sheb Wooley | ... | Latigo | |
| George Wallace | ... | Tom Carter | |
| Frank Chase | ... | Little Waco | |
| Paul Birch | ... | Mark Toliver | |
| Roy Barcroft | ... | Sheriff Olson | |
| William 'Bill' Phillips | ... | Cookie (as Wm. 'Bill' Phillips) |
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Runtime:
89 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Norway:16 (1955) |
West Germany:16 (nf) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:(Banned) (1955-1967) |
Finland:K-16 (1967) |
Sweden:15
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One of the first films that Kirk Douglas made through his production company. The film went on to become a box office hit.
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Anachronisms: When Dempsey Rae and Jeff Jimson are rousted off the train near the beginning of the movie, they are standing in front of a boxcar that has a registration mark painted on the side indicating it was built in December 1923. However, the movie is set in the old West of the late 19th century.
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Jeff Jimson:
[after prodding by Dempsey in front of the lady owner, Jeff has shown he can't shoot] You didn't have to make a fool out of me in front of her.
Dempsey Rae: I didn't make a fool out of you, kid. You have to do that yourself.
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Dempsey Rae: I didn't make a fool out of you, kid. You have to do that yourself.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in ... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
And the Moon Grew Brighter and Brighter
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The man without a star is Douglas, and the Star is the picture here. Douglas apes, cavorts, and even sings his way thru the part of the seasoned cowboy attempting to teach a tenderfoot the ways of the range. Campbell is good as the young green-horn that learns his lessons perhaps too well. Although the fun seems a bit forced at times, this one is hard not to like.