Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
- helicopter
- sheriff
- based on novel or book
- escape
- independence
- loyalty
- horse
- modern society
- male friendship
- prison escape
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Kirk Douglas
John W. "Jack" Burns
Gena Rowlands
Jerry Bondi
Walter Matthau
Sheriff Morey Johnson
Michael Kane
Paul Bondi
- Carroll O'Connor — Hinton
- William Schallert — Harry
- George Kennedy — Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez
- Karl Swenson — Rev. Hoskins
- William Mims — First Deputy Arraigning Burns
- Martín Garralaga — Old Man
- Lalo Rios — Prisoner
- John Barton — Prisoner (uncredited)
- Ray Beltram — Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Audrey Betz — Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Bill Bixby — Airman in Helicopter (uncredited)
- Directed
- David Miller
- Written
- Dalton Trumbo
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 171 ratings
- Studio
- Joel 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.
