Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.
- texas
- kansas
- usa
- cattle drive
- revenge
- black and white
- cattle
- adopted child
- cattle empire
- 1850s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
John Wayne
Thomas Dunson
Montgomery Clift
Matthew Garth
Joanne Dru
Tess Millay
Walter Brennan
'Groot' Nadine
- Coleen Gray — Fen
- Harry Carey — Mr. Melville
- John Ireland — Cherry Valance
- Noah Beery Jr. — Buster McGee
- Harry Carey, Jr. — Dan Latimer
- Chief Yowlachie — Quo
- Paul Fix — Teeler Yacey
- Hank Worden — Simms Reeves
- Mickey Kuhn — Matt, as a Boy
- Ray Hyke — Walt Jergens
- Hal Taliaferro — Old Leather
- Directed
- Howard Hawks
- Written
- Charles Schnee, Borden Chase
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 602 ratings
- Studio
- Monterey Productions, Charles K. Feldman Group
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