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6.5/10   236 votes
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Director:
Phil Karlson
Writers:
Ric Hardman (story)
Frank S. Nugent (screenplay)
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Release Date:
July 1958 (USA) more
Genre:
Western more
Tagline:
BLISTERING RAW DRAMA! (original print ad - all caps)
Plot:
Rancher Lee Hackett is one of the old breed, used to making his own laws and settling things with a gun... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Excellent, under-valued western more (15 total)

Cast

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Van Heflin ... Lee Hackett

Tab Hunter ... Ed Hackett
Kathryn Grant ... Clee Chouard
James Darren ... Davy Hackett
Mickey Shaughnessy ... Deputy Sheriff Will Motely
Robert F. Simon ... Sheriff Harry Brill

Edward Platt ... Purcell Avery
Ray Teal ... Jensen Sieverts
Paul Birch ... Bob Selkirk
Michael Granger ... Curly

Will Wright ... Judge
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Runtime:
97 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
West Germany:12 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
Company:
Columbia Pictures Corporation more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Bert Convy's first film. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Lee Hackett leaves town, chasing after his jailbreak son, Ed, he is riding a "right-maned" horse. When he catches up with Ed, he is on a "left-maned" (different) horse. more
Soundtrack:
I'm A Runaway more

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Excellent, under-valued western, 26 September 2007
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Author: Martin Bradley (MOscarbradley@aol.com) from Derry, Ireland

An outstanding and unjustly neglected western from that fine genre director Phil Karlson who, if he never quite made it to the front ranks, could nevertheless be counted upon to produce first rate and thought-provoking entertainments of which this is one. Karlson had no problem juggling the pieces' myriad themes, (the Freudian relationship between a martinet father and his hot-headed son, miscegenation and racial prejudice, gun culture and the changing ways of the West), without ever sacrificing the solid entertainment value of what is essentially a good old-fashioned western.

As the father piling all his affection on the wrong son, Van Heflin is as reliable as ever. The real surprise of the picture, however, is Tab Hunter as the son who both hates and idolizes his father. Hunter was never much of an actor but here, cast against type as the villain of the piece, he manages to bring depth and feeling to the role. Perhaps he located the misfit nature of the character. After all, being gay in Hollywood in the fifties and living a life that was fundamentally a lie, surely can't have been easy.

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