Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
- small town
- gunslinger
- showdown
- fistfight
- u.s. marshal
- shootout
- morality
- black and white
- battle
- justice
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gary Cooper
Marshal Will Kane
Thomas Mitchell
Mayor Jonas Henderson
Lloyd Bridges
Deputy Marshal Harvey Pell
Katy Jurado
Helen Ramírez
- Grace Kelly — Amy Fowler Kane
- Otto Kruger — Judge Percy Mettrick
- Lon Chaney Jr. — Martin Howe
- Harry Morgan — Sam Fuller
- Ian MacDonald — Frank Miller
- Eve McVeagh — Mildred Fuller
- Morgan Farley — Dr. Mahin
- Harry Shannon — Cooper
- Lee Van Cleef — Jack Colby
- Robert J. Wilke — Jim Pierce
- Sheb Wooley — Ben Miller
- Directed
- Fred Zinnemann
- Written
- Carl Foreman
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 1,602 ratings
- Studio
- Stanley Kramer Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
