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Great Day in the Morning

  • 19561956
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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Virginia Mayo and Robert Stack in Great Day in the Morning (1956)
A Confederate drifter wins a hotel-saloon at poker in Denver but two rival female admirers, local Union sympathizers, Southern gold miners and an orphaned boy complicate his life.
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A Confederate drifter wins a hotel-saloon at poker in Denver but two rival female admirers, local Union sympathizers, Southern gold miners and an orphaned boy complicate his life.A Confederate drifter wins a hotel-saloon at poker in Denver but two rival female admirers, local Union sympathizers, Southern gold miners and an orphaned boy complicate his life.A Confederate drifter wins a hotel-saloon at poker in Denver but two rival female admirers, local Union sympathizers, Southern gold miners and an orphaned boy complicate his life.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
927
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
15,394
10,575
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    • Director
      • Jacques Tourneur
    • Writers
      • Lesser Samuels(screen play)
      • Robert Hardy Andrews(novel)
    • Stars
      • Virginia Mayo
      • Robert Stack
      • Ruth Roman
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Jacques Tourneur
    • Writers
      • Lesser Samuels(screen play)
      • Robert Hardy Andrews(novel)
    • Stars
      • Virginia Mayo
      • Robert Stack
      • Ruth Roman
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 23User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews

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    Virginia Mayo, Alex Nicol, Ruth Roman, and Robert Stack in Great Day in the Morning (1956)
    Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, and Robert Stack in Great Day in the Morning (1956)
    Ruth Roman and Robert Stack in Great Day in the Morning (1956)
    Ruth Roman and Robert Stack in Great Day in the Morning (1956)
    Ruth Roman and Robert Stack in Great Day in the Morning (1956)
    Virginia Mayo in Great Day in the Morning (1956)
    Virginia Mayo and Robert Stack in Great Day in the Morning (1956)
    Ruth Roman in Great Day in the Morning (1956)
    Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, and Robert Stack in Great Day in the Morning (1956)
    Robert Stack in Great Day in the Morning (1956)
    Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, and Robert Stack in Great Day in the Morning (1956)
    Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, and Robert Stack in Great Day in the Morning (1956)

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    Virginia Mayo
    Virginia Mayo
    • Ann Merry Alaine
    Robert Stack
    Robert Stack
    • Owen Pentecost
    Ruth Roman
    Ruth Roman
    • Boston Grant
    Alex Nicol
    Alex Nicol
    • Captain Stephen Kirby
    Raymond Burr
    Raymond Burr
    • Jumbo Means
    Leo Gordon
    Leo Gordon
    • Zeff Masterson
    Regis Toomey
    Regis Toomey
    • Father Murphy
    Carleton Young
    Carleton Young
    • Col. Gibson
    • (as Carlton Young)
    Donald MacDonald
    Donald MacDonald
    • Gary John Lawford
    Walter Bacon
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    Rudy Bowman
    Rudy Bowman
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    Fred Carson
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    Albert Cavens
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    Lane Chandler
    Lane Chandler
    • Northern Loyalist
    • (uncredited)
    Lee Erickson
    • Fighting boy
    • (uncredited)
    Duke Fishman
    Duke Fishman
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    George Ford
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    Slim Gaut
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jacques Tourneur
    • Writers
      • Lesser Samuels(screen play)
      • Robert Hardy Andrews(novel)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Goofs
      In this pre-Civil War tale, two Secret Service agents discuss the probability of war breaking out. The Secret Service was created after the Civil War.
    • Quotes

      Owen Pentecost: Sure, I'm loyal. I've got an undying loyalty to myself and no one else, nothing else.

    • Crazy credits
      Opening credits prologue: In that part of our country which we know today as Colorado, the Indians fought the white man for possession of the land and the white men fought each other for the same land.

      It was a small but bloody rehearsal for the War Between the States which was soon to follow. It had its patriots and its profiteers, its quiet heroes and its noisy flag wavers.

      So one day early in 1861 - - -
    • Soundtracks
      Bonnie Blue Flag
      (uncredited)

      Music taken from traditional Irish marching song

      Lyrics by Harry McCarthy (1861)

      Passages integrated into the score

    User reviews23

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    Top review
    8/10
    Good little seen gem from director Tourneur
    An above average western, in its direction and writing rising above a fairly typical situational action picture. Stack is great as the profiteering Southerner unwillingly caught up in the foment of the Civil War, while he attempts to raise the son of the man he killed. Mayo is unremarkable as the "good" woman, but Roman puts in a memorable and sincere performance as one of the town's many "bad" girls. Tourneur's direction is what really makes this one memorable, though, from the crisp grandeur of the opening shootout at high altitudes to the concluding race with wagons through the hills of Colorado.

    For Western fans, a great treat roughly in the tradition of Budd Boetticher's "Ranown" films with Randolph Scott.
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    5
    • funkyfry
    • Feb 15, 2003

    Details

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    • Release date
      • May 16, 1956 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Skrupellos
    • Filming locations
      • Silverton, Colorado, USA
    • Production company
      • Edmund Grainger Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 32 minutes

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