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Plot

Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Action,Drama,Westerns
Run Time:
84min.
Director(s):
Themes:
Crumbling Marriages
Tone:
Tense,Earthy
Keywords:
cattle,husband-and-wife,land-scheme,ranch