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5.9/10   81 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Oscar Brodney (screenplay)
Lee Leighton (novel)
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Release Date:
13 June 1956 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
THE STORY OF THE MOST DESPERATE GAMBLE THE WEST HAS EVER KNOWN! (original print ad - all caps)
Plot:
The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown... more | add synopsis
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Tacky, uneventful western more (5 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
John Agar ... Sheriff Bill Jorden
Mamie Van Doren ... Ellen Ballard

Richard Boone ... Sam Hall
Coleen Gray ... Nellie Mason
Leif Erickson ... George Ballard
James Gleason ... Orval Jones
Randy Stuart ... Nan Hogan
Terry Gilkyson ... The Music Man
Paul Fix ... Mike MacNamara
Harry Morgan ... Lew Hogan
Stuart Randall ... Jess Ryman
Robert Osterloh ... Rigdon
Stanley Andrews ... Ben Smith
John Daheim ... Jiggs Larribee (as John Day)
Stafford Repp ... Leo Roos
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Law Man (USA) (alternative title)
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Runtime:
80 min
Country:
Language:
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.00 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
UK:PG (re-rating) (2006) | UK:U (original rating) | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Sam Hall: You annoy me, sheriff. When I leave your hotel I'm gonna squash you like I'd squash a bug. more
Soundtrack:
Sam Hall more

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Tacky, uneventful western, 17 March 2001
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Author: Shawn Watson (gator_macready@yahoo.com) from The Underverse

For a Western movie this was very boring and had very little going on. There is no real plot and only a couple of muddled and drama-free sub-plots.

The movie is about some hit-man in a cell who is awaiting hanging for the killing of some cattleboys. The sheriff wants a peaceful hanging (!) without having to prove that he's as good a Sheriff as his father was. And a couple of other minor characters serve no purpose other than to complicate matters for petty reasons.

There are a few silly fight scenes that remind of the A-Team with the wooden furniture falling apart very easily. And, as always, there are embarrassingly fake fights in which there is no penetration seen or any

shown. Were there any R-rated movies in the 50's? But the most annoying thing about this movie is the songs but the 'singing narrator' who only ever uses the same tune but uses marginally different words each time. Ugh! If this is on TV on a Sunday afternoon…miss it. Go out for a walk, even if it's raining.

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