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01/04/1958 Western 1h 23m
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The war of the ranch kings stampedes the West's wildest cattle empire

Overview

After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree, a trail boss is hired by the same town's leading citizen to drive their cattle to Fort Clemson. Complicating matters, a rival cattle baron also hires the cattle driver to lead his herd.

  1. Charles Marquis Warren

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Joel McCrea

    John Cord

  2. Gloria Talbott

    Sandy Jeffrey

  3. Don Haggerty

    Ralph Hamilton

  4. Phyllis Coates

    Janice Hamilton

  5. Bing Russell

    Douglas Hamilton

  6. Richard Shannon

    Garth

  7. Paul Brinegar

    Tom Jefferson Jeffrey

  8. Charles H. Gray

    Tom Powis (as Charles Gray)

  9. Art Felix

    Vaquero (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2015-09-15
The Town Of Hamilton Bids You Welcome.

Joel McCrea stars as a trail boss falsely imprisoned for his men's misdemeanours. Released and suffering at the hands of an unforgiving and irate town, he's hired by a blind Don Haggerty to drive his herd - but Haggerty has his own agenda's on this trip.

A routine Western that is chiefly saved from the bottom rung by the presence of Joel McCrea. McCrea was a real life cowboy type who owned and worked out of a ranch in California, thus he gives this standard Oater a naturalistic core from which to tell the story. If only they could have given him som...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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