Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
James Arness | ... | Matt Dillon | |
Amanda Blake | ... | Kitty | |
Buck Taylor | ... | Newly | |
Fran Ryan | ... | Hannah | |
Earl Holliman | ... | Jake Flagg | |
Ken Olandt | ... | Lt. Dexter | |
William Morgan Sheppard | ... | Digger McCloud (as W. Morgan Sheppard) | |
Patrice Martinez | ... | Bright Water | |
Tantoo Cardinal | ... | Little Doe | |
Steve Forrest | ... | Will Mannon | |
Mickey Jones | ... | Oakum | |
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Frank Totino | ... | Logan (as Frank M. Totino) |
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Robert Koons | ... | Warden Amos Brown |
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Walter Kaasa | ... | Judge Collins |
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Georgie Collins | ... | Mrs. Collins |
Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins", is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there around twelve years ago, Marshal Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty Russell.
I agree with others who have said the Earl Holliman character just didn't fit with the rest of the movie. As for Matt's mountain man look, I think there are many episodes in the series that suggest that if he hadn't become a U.S. marshal, he would have become a mountain man / trapper. But for any Gunsmoke fan, I think it was very special seeing Matt and Kitty back together one last time. Since Kitty wasn't in the last season of the regular TV series, this episode provided some closure to one of the longest screen romances of all time. I think the final scene with Matt and Kitty stayed true to the tone set by the TV series.