Top billed cast

1. 

   Joel McCrea

   Wyatt Earp

2. 

   Vera Miles

   Laurie McCoy

3. 

   Lloyd Bridges

   Gyp Clements

4. 

   Wallace Ford

   Arthur Whiteside

5. 

   Edgar Buchanan

   Doc Black

6. 

   Peter Graves

   Morgan Earp

7. 

   Keith Larsen

   Bat Masterson

8. 

   Carl Benton Reid

   Mayor Andrew Hope

9. 

   John Smith

   Jim Earp

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2016-01-02

The Kansas Law Dog!

Wichita is directed by Jacques Tourneur and written by Daniel B. Ullman. It stars Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Wallace Ford, Edgar Buchannan, Lloyd Bridges and Keith Larsen. It's filmed in Cinemascope/Technicolor with cinematography by Harold Lipstein and music by Hans J. Salter.

Wichita is an origin story, that of one Wyatt Earp (McCrea), the story is set before he gets to Dodge City, where apparently some famous gunfight occurred. From a narrative stand point it's a town tamer story, Earp arrives in a newly thriving Wichita, at this point he's a hunter of buffalo only. ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• saloon
• marshal
• wyatt earp
• gunfight
• moral courage
• cattle
• wild west
• gunfighter
• wichita kansas
• small western town
• gun shooting
• hired gun
• drunkenness
• alcohol problems
• gun control
• town marshal
• boom town
• cattlemen
• origin story
• civil unrest
• driveby shooting
• accidental shooting
• commerce without conscience
• cowboys
• no guns in the bar
• drunk men
• law and order
• wichita
• gun ban
• child killed by gun