Director
Robert Wise
Music (original)
Roy Webb
Cast
Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston
Edition 1998
88'
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1948
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Western, Drama
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Format:
35mm
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Dialogue:
English
After he is nearly trampled by a herd of runaway steers while on Indian reservation range land, Jim Garry meets the herd's owner, John Lufton.The wary Lufton reveals him that, after years of supplying the reservation with beef, he is being forced out by Jake Pindalest, the new Indian agent. Lufton is also fighting Tate Riling, who has organised the area homesteaders to prevent him from moving his cattle back to the basin grazing land that was once his. Although suspicious that he may be one of Tate's hired guns, Lufton asks Jim to deliver a note to his family who lives in the basin. There he meets with Tate, who reveals that his true plan is to force Lufton to sell his cattle at a cut-rate price. Because he is broke, Jim agrees to become one of his henchmen…
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Credits
Directors
Robert Wise
Music (original)
Roy Webb
Cast
Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston
Scenario
Lillie Hayward, Harold Shumate, Luke Short
Director of Photography
Nicholas Musuraca
Editors
Samuel E. Beetley
Producers
Theron Warth
More info
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Screenplay based on
Gunman's Chance ( Luke Short)
Year
1948
Technical Specs
Format
35mm