Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 141 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
- small town
- sheriff
- gun
- marshal
- texas
- deputy
- murder
- jail
- alcoholic
- stagecoach
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Walter Brennan — Stumpy
- Ward Bond — Pat Wheeler
- John Russell — Nathan Burdette
- Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez — Carlos Robante
- Estelita Rodriguez — Consuela Robante
- Claude Akins — Joe Burdette
- Malcolm Atterbury — Jake
- Harry Carey, Jr. — Harold
- Walter Barnes — Charlie (uncredited)
- George Bell — Barfly (uncredited)
- Noble 'Kid' Chissell — Barfly (uncredited)
- Directed
- Howard Hawks
- Written
- Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 1,276 ratings
- Studio
- Armada Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
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.
