Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.
- cattle drive
- oil
- oil industry
- neo-western
- cattle baron
- 1940s
- oil exploration
The bill
James Caan
Frank 'Buck' Athearn
Jane Fonda
Ella Connors
Jason Robards
Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
George Grizzard
Neil Atkinson
- Richard Farnsworth — Dodger
- Mark Harmon — Billy Joe Meynert
- Macon McCalman — Virgil Hoverton
- Basil Hoffman — George Bascomb
- James Keach — Emil Kroegh
- Jim Davis — Julie Blocker
- James Kline — Ralph Cole
- Clifford A. Pellow — Cattle Buyer
- Allan Baker — Pall Bearer (uncredited)
- Cary Huff — Army Bugler (uncredited)
- Antonino Garcia Tony — School Kid (uncredited)
- Directed
- Alan J. Pakula
- Written
- Dennis Lynton Clark
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 79 ratings
- Studio
- United Artists
If this stayed with you
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