About
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.
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6.563/10
CinemaSerf
This is a much grittier western than I am used to from Anthony Mann; giving Gary Cooper much more to get his teeth into than the usual, simple, gun-slinging fayre. He plays a reformed outlaw who is ca... read more
7 months ago
John Chard
Another Intelligent Western from Anthony Mann. Link Jones is on his way to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher, having left his wife and children behind, Link appears to be the epitome of the simple... read more
about 8 years ago
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Cast
Gary Cooper
Link Jones
Julie London
Billie Ellis
Lee J. Cobb
Dock Tobin
Arthur O'Connell
Sam Beasley
Jack Lord
Coaley
John Dehner
Claude Tobin
Royal Dano
Trout
Robert J. Wilke
Ponch
Joe Dominguez
Mexican Man (uncredited)
Dick Elliott
Willie (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
Crosscut Marshal (uncredited)
Herman Hack
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Signe Hack
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Ann Kunde
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Tom London
Tom (uncredited)
Tina Menard
Juanita (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Henry (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson
Rifleman-Guard on Train (uncredited)
Glen Walters
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Guy Wilkerson
Conductor (uncredited)
Jack Williams
Alcutt (uncredited)
Director
Anthony Mann
Director
Dick Moder
Assistant Director
Sam Freedle
Continuity
Creator
Will C. Brown
Novel
Reginald Rose
Screenplay
