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Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
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May 15, 1956
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20th Century Fox
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Cast
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Robert Ryan
Marshal Cass Silver
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Virginia Mayo
Sally
J
Jeffrey Hunter
Thad Anderson
R
Robert Middleton
Honest John Barrett
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Walter Brennan
Jake
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Arthur O'Connell
Jim Dexter
R
Rodolfo Acosta
Chico
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Ken Clark
Pike
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George Mathews
Dillon
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Fay Roope
Markham
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Edward Platt
Dr. Barlow
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Whit Bissell
Mr. Sam Bolton
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Robert Adler
Poker Player (uncredited)
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Walter Bacon
Townsman (uncredited)
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Don Brodie
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
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Paul E. Burns
Billy Smith (uncredited)
H
Harry Carter
Houseman (uncredited)
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Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Townsman (uncredited)
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Jackie Coogan
Man on Make (uncredited)
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Steve Darrell
George, trail boss (uncredited)
