Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
- friendship
- showdown
- based on novel or book
- gun
- harassment
- settler
- fistfight
- little boy
- gunfight
- homesteader
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Jack Palance — Jack Wilson
- Ben Johnson — Chris Calloway
- Edgar Buchanan — Fred Lewis
- Emile Meyer — Rufus Ryker
- Elisha Cook Jr. — Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey
- Douglas Spencer — Axel 'Swede' Shipstead
- John Dierkes — Morgan Ryker
- Ellen Corby — Liz Torrey
- Paul McVey — Sam Grafton
- John Miller — Bartender Will Atkey
- Edith Evanson — Mrs. Shipstead
- Directed
- George Stevens
- Written
- A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 696 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount 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.
