Wichita (1955)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Jacques Tourneur

Writer:

Daniel B. Ullman (story)

Release Date:

3 July 1955 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

WYATT EARP LIVES HIS GREATEST ADVENTURES IN THE EARLY DAYS OF WICHITA...WHERE GUNS TALKED LOUDER THAN WORDS! (re-release print ad - all caps

Plot:

Ex-Buffalo Hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas....

Plot Keywords:

Town | Law And Order | Sheriff | Newspaper | Peace

Awards:

Won Golden Globe.

Cast

Joel McCrea	...	Wyatt Earp
Vera Miles	...	Laurie McCoy
Lloyd Bridges	...	Gyp Clements
Wallace Ford	...	Arthur Whiteside
Edgar Buchanan	...	Doc Black
Peter Graves	...	Morgan Earp
Keith Larsen	...	Bat Masterson
Carl Benton Reid	...	Mayor Andrew Hoke
John Smith	...	Jim Earp
Walter Coy	...	Sam McCoy
Robert J. Wilke	...	Ben Thompson
Walter Sande	...	Clint Wallace
Jack Elam	...	Al Mann
Mae Clarke	...	Mary Elizabeth McCoy
Gene Wesson	...	Robber #1

Runtime:

81 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

West Germany:12 (re-rated) | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Company:

Allied Artists Pictures

Trivia:

Sam Peckinpah, plays a bit part as a bank teller in this picture

Soundtrack:

Wichita

Decent Western

The strong personality of Wyatt Earp has inspired many western so far. This one is quite old, 45 years old, but is quite decent and concrete.It focuses in the time when Wyatt Earp was a sheriff in Wichita, Kansas, before his trip to Dodge City.Starring Joel McCrea, who was a big star of western movies during the 1950s.