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15/05/1956 Western 1h 34m
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A MAN OF FIERCE PRIDE...and six-guns to match!

Overview

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.

  1. Robert D. Webb

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Robert Ryan

    Marshal Cass Silver

  2. Virginia Mayo

    Sally

  3. Jeffrey Hunter

    Thad Anderson

  4. Robert Middleton

    Honest John Barrett

  5. Walter Brennan

    Jake

  6. Arthur O'Connell

    Jim Dexter

  7. Rodolfo Acosta

    Chico

  8. Ken Clark

    Pike

  9. George Mathews

    Dillon

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-01-24
“Cass” (Robert Ryan) is the sheriff of a frontier town who just about manages to keep law an order. Then a blast from his past arrives to upset his carefully crafted equilibrium. “Barrett” - rather anachronistically called “Honest” (Robert Middleton) arrives in town bent on a little expansion. Initially, it looks like his luck might be in as an early altercation between “Cass” and one of his goons sees the lawman take a clout to the head. Shortly afterwards, headaches and double-vision ensue, and then just when he thinks things can’t be much worse for him and fiancée “Sall...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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