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User Rating:
6.4/10   89 votes
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Director:
Henry Hathaway
Writers:
Sydney Boehm (writer)
Georges Simenon (novel)
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Release Date:
19 May 1956 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher big-man-in-town in the border town of Nogales... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Van Johnson: 1916 - 2008
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User Comments:
Excellent study of characters and strong messages of forgiveness more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Van Johnson ... Donald Martin / Eric Bell
Joseph Cotten ... Pat 'P.M.' Martin
Ruth Roman ... Nora Martin

Jack Carson ... Hal Breckinridge
Margaret Hayes ... Lil Breckinridge
Bruce Bennett ... Brand
Brad Dexter ... Stanley Miller
Peggy Knudsen ... Ellen Miller
Jim Davis ... George Cady
Margaret Lindsay ... Hannah Cady
Nancy Gates ... Mildred Martin

Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez ... Luis Romero (as Gonzales-Gonzales)
John Lee ... Jenkins
Tod Griffin ... Rancher (as Ted Griffin)
Ernestine Barrier ... Lucy Grant
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Beyond the River (UK)
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Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (magnetic prints) | Mono (optical prints)
Certification:
West Germany:12 (nf) | Finland:K-16

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Soundtrack:
Give Me the Simple Life more

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11 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
Excellent study of characters and strong messages of forgiveness, 16 September 2004
7/10
Author: hkatchay from Mount Pleasant, Iowa

A wonderful body of work. Saw it many years ago on AMC, but has not been shown since. I continue to look with the hopes that any video company would discover this gem and make it available.

Great display of location shooting and the work of the entire cast represent them at their finest.

Van Johnson has never been better, and Joseph Cotten holds on admirably to generate the contrast between the brothers. Ruth Roman,a stalwart of the profession, should have a festival somewhere dedicated to her work. I would definitely attend. I highly recommend one and all to search for this film, and I am happy that there are others who feel the way I do about this body of work.

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