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16 May 1956 (USA) more
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THE BUGLE BLAST that echoed thru history!
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After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women - one who came with the hotel... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Virginia Mayo ... Ann Merry Alaine

Robert Stack ... Owen Pentecost
Ruth Roman ... Boston Grant
Alex Nicol ... Captain Stephen Kirby
Raymond Burr ... Jumbo Means
Leo Gordon ... Zeff Masterson
Regis Toomey ... Father Murphy
Carleton Young ... Col. Gibson (as Carlton Young)
Donald MacDonald ... Gary John Lawford
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92 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.00 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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Owen Pentecost: I don't belong to anyone except myself. I'm not joining any parade - yours or theirs. I like walking alone - no ties. Don't ask questions; no one to answer to. Man's gotta be sentimental to fight a war; gotta have a lump in his throat about God and country and home and mother, all the pretty things.
[Takes a drink, and looks at Boston]
Owen Pentecost: No lumps.
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Good little seen gem from director Tourneur, 15 February 2003
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Author: funkyfry from Oakland CA

An above average western, in its direction and writing rising above a fairly typical situational action picture. Stack is great as the profiteering Southerner unwillingly caught up in the foment of the Civil War, while he attempts to raise the son of the man he killed. Mayo is unremarkable as the "good" woman, but Roman puts in a memorable and sincere performance as one of the town's many "bad" girls. Tourneur's direction is what really makes this one memorable, though, from the crisp grandeur of the opening shootout at high altitudes to the concluding race with wagons through the hills of Colorado.

For Western fans, a great treat roughly in the tradition of Budd Boetticher's "Ranown" films with Randolph Scott.

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