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26 March 1958 (Japan)
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THE REAL, TRUE STORY OF THE WEST! (original print ad - all caps)
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Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves...
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 nomination
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Does the herd come above everything?
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Glenn Ford | ... | Tom Reese |
 | Jack Lemmon | ... | Frank Harris |
 | Anna Kashfi | ... | Maria Vidal / Arriega |
 | Brian Donlevy | ... | Doc Bender, Trailhand |
| Dick York | ... | Charlie, Trailhand |
| Víctor Manuel Mendoza | ... | Paco Mendoza, Ramrod |
| Richard Jaeckel | ... | Paul Curtis |
| King Donovan | ... | Joe Capper, Trailhand |
| Vaughn Taylor | ... | Mr. Fowler, Chicago Hotel Manager |
| Donald Randolph | ... | Senor Vidal, Maria's Father |
| James Westerfield | ... | Mike Adams |
| Eugene Iglesias | ... | Don Manuel Arriega |
| Frank DeKova | ... | Alcaide (as Frank de Kova) |
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92 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Revealing mistakes: While Don Manuel Arriega and Tom Reese are attempting to place the ring on the bull's horns, it is obvious the horns, which bend and flop, are made of rubber.
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Tom Reese:
Well, what makes you think you'd like to go trail herding?
Frank Harris: Well, ah, all my life I've been dreaming about going into the cattle business. Getting out on the trail and... and I hate Chicago. I'd like to live in the open. You know what I mean?
Tom Reese: Oh, yeah, I know what you mean. You mean lying out there under the stars listening to the boys singing around the campfire. And your faithful old horse standing there grazing at the grass by your side. You do much riding?
Frank Harris: Me? Well, I bet I could ride all day and all night.
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Frank Harris: Well, ah, all my life I've been dreaming about going into the cattle business. Getting out on the trail and... and I hate Chicago. I'd like to live in the open. You know what I mean?
Tom Reese: Oh, yeah, I know what you mean. You mean lying out there under the stars listening to the boys singing around the campfire. And your faithful old horse standing there grazing at the grass by your side. You do much riding?
Frank Harris: Me? Well, I bet I could ride all day and all night.
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Delmer Daves was very successful with this film, about how a young hotel clerk (Lemmon) becomes a cowboy, but most of all how he becomes a man. Daves takes us on journey, driving a cattle herd from Mexico to finally place them on the Santa Fe train bound for Chicago, and he manages to keep us interested every moment. There is a snake, an Indian attack, wild horses, a cattle stampede, cowboys fighting...What is impressive is the efficiency with which Glenn Ford commands the operation, no time is lost, everything must be done to deliver the herd with as few losses as possible. Lemmon starts becoming like Ford, obsessed about his task, when they both learn something about human values.