Directed by:
Joseph H. LewisScreenplay:
Dalton TrumboCinematography:
Ray RennahanComposer:
Gerald FriedCast:
Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugene Mazzola, Fred Kohler Jr., Glenn Strange, Sheb Wooley, Marilee Earle, Byron Foulger, Frank Ferguson (more)Plots(1)
McNeil (Sebastian Cabot, The Time Machine) is a greedy hotel owner who wants to take control of Prairie City, the Texas town of the title. Keen to drive the local farmers of their land, McNeil hires a gunman, Johnny Crale (Nedrick Young, who would pen the Oscar-winning screenplay for The Defiant Ones the same year), resulting in the death of a former whaler. The dead man’s son, George Hansen (Sterling Hayden, The Killing), arrives in town to inherit the farm and set the stage for revenge – armed with only his father’s old harpoon… (Arrow Academy)
(more)Cast
Sterling Hayden
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather (1972)
Sebastian Cabot
UK
Best movies:
Romeo and Juliet (1954)
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) - narrator
Carol Kelly
Best movies:
All Fall Down (1962)
Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Eugene Mazzola
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Walk the Proud Land (1956)
Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Fred Kohler Jr.
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Glenn Strange
USA
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Brute Force (1947)
The Lusty Men (1952)
Sheb Wooley
USA
Marilee Earle
USA
Best movies:
Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Byron Foulger
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Frank Ferguson
USA
Best movies:
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Jeffrey Sayre
USA
Best movies:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
Jack Tornek
Belarus
Best movies:
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Ted Stanhope
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
High Noon (1952)
Three Little Words (1950)
Hank Patterson
USA
Best movies:
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
Julie (1956)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Herman Hack
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Steve Mitchell
USA
Best movies:
The Killing (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Once a Thief (1965)
Victor Millan
USA
Best movies:
Scarface (1983)
Giant (1956)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Nedrick Young
USA
Best movies:
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Gun Crazy (1950)
Seconds (1966)
Tyler McVey
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Kansas Moehring
USA
Best movies:
Captain Blood (1935)
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Rainmaker (1956)