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13 June 1956 (USA)
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THE STORY OF THE MOST DESPERATE GAMBLE THE WEST HAS EVER KNOWN! (original print ad - all caps)
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The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown...
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Tacky, uneventful western
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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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Law Man (USA) (alternative title)
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80 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.00 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Sam Hall
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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.