The Warner Bros. film, The Big Land, opened in Chicago on Wednesday, February 20, 1957, at the Roosevelt theatre (State nr Washington---no longer standing), it being the top-half of a double-bill, the bottom-half featured the crime drama, Nightfall; the films played two weeks.
Alan Ladd stars as a Kansas cattle rancher battling the elements and corrupt cattle buyers to build a railroad spur to the Rio Grande just after the United States Civil War.
