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Director:
Joseph H. Lewis
Writers (WGA):
Dalton Trumbo (written by) (front Ben Perry)
Ben Perry (front for Dalton Trumbo)
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Release Date:
September 1958 (USA) more
Genre:
Western more
Tagline:
When the Texas Plains Ran With Blood and Black Gold!
Plot:
A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land. | add synopsis
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NewsDesk:
Blacklisted Writers To Get Credits -- Most Of Them, Posthumously
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User Comments:
ordinary movie, interesting style more (18 total)

Cast

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Sterling Hayden ... George Hansen
Sebastian Cabot ... Ed McNeil
Carol Kelly ... Molly
Eugene Martin ... Pepe Mirada
Nedrick Young ... Johnny Crale (as Ned Young)
Victor Millan ... Jose Mirada
Frank Ferguson ... Deacon Matt Holmes
Marilee Earle ... Mona Stacey
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Runtime:
80 min | USA:81 min (DVD version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Spanish
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (MPAA rating: certificate #18924) | UK:PG | West Germany:12 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario)
Filming Locations:
California, USA more
Company:
Seltzer Films more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This was the final feature film for director Joseph H. Lewis. He would spend much of the next decade directing television episodes before retiring from the industry. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Cinemania (2002) more

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7 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
ordinary movie, interesting style, 14 September 1999
5/10
Author: bobc-5 from Annandale, VA

In most respects, this is a completely unremarkable low-budget western. Greedy rich guy hires evil gunfighter to terrorize local farmers. Upstanding good guy arrives and it's just a matter of time before the final showdown. It's competently executed most of the time. Some of it is imaginative and some of it is predictably cliche. And I have to disagree with the other comment on this page - the final showdown did not surprise me in the least. Die-hard western fans and followers of Sterling Hayden will want to view this, but I don't know about anyone else.

Except that it is successfully filmed in an interesting and unique style, as if it were a 1950's comic book or pulp-fiction novel brought to the screen. This is immediately apparent in the opening credits, with its teaser glimpse of the final scene and including the alliterative hyperbole of the title, and continues consistently throughout the film. Perhaps many little known low budget 1950s film accomplished this feat, but this is the only one I'm aware of that does it so well.

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