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The Proud Ones

Name: The Proud Ones
Genre: Western
Released: 1956-05-15
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 6.539

★ 6,5 /10 (38 Votes)

1956 EN 94 min

Overview

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.

Release date

15/05/1956

Votes

Popularity

2.0

A MAN OF FIERCE PRIDE...and six-guns to match!

Genres

Western

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

94 min

Robert Ryan

Marshal Cass Silver

Virginia Mayo

Sally

Jeffrey Hunter

Thad Anderson

Robert Middleton

Honest John Barrett

Walter Brennan

Jake

Arthur O'Connell

Jim Dexter

Rodolfo Acosta

Chico

Ken Clark

Pike

George Mathews

Dillon

Fay Roope

Markham

Edward Platt

Dr. Barlow

Whit Bissell

Mr. Sam Bolton

Robert Adler

Poker Player (uncredited)

No photo

Walter Bacon

Townsman (uncredited)

Don Brodie

Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Paul E. Burns

Billy Smith (uncredited)

Harry Carter

Houseman (uncredited)

Noble 'Kid' Chissell

Townsman (uncredited)

Jackie Coogan

Man on Make (uncredited)

Steve Darrell

George, trail boss (uncredited)

Richard Deacon

Barber (uncredited)

William Fawcett

Driver (uncredited)

Frank Gerstle

Tim (uncredited)

Michael Jeffers

Townsman (uncredited)

Dick Johnstone

Saloon Dealer (uncredited)

I. Stanford Jolley

Crooked Card-Player (uncredited)

Joe Phillips

Townsman (uncredited)

No photo

Joe Ploski

Barfly (uncredited)

Bob Reeves

Townsman (uncredited)

Ray Spiker

Townsman (uncredited)

Charles Tannen

2nd Foreman (uncredited)

Ken Terrell

The Weasel (uncredited)

Jack Tornek

Townsman (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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A thriving town sells its soul. The Proud Ones is directed by Robert D. Webb and adapted to screenplay by Edmund H. North and Joseph Petracca from the Verne Athanas novel. It stars Robert Ryan, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Mayo, Robert Middleton, Walter Brennan, Arthur O'Connell, Ken Clark and Rodolfo Acosta. A De Luxe Color/Cinemascope production, with music by Lionel Newman and cinematography by Lucien Ballard. Flat Rock, Kansas, and the coming of the railroad and the trail herds has the town eagerly planning for prosperity. Cass Silver (Ryan), the no nonsense marshal of Flat Rock is expe…

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“Cass” (Robert Ryan) is the sheriff of a frontier town who just about manages to keep law an order. Then a blast from his past arrives to upset his carefully crafted equilibrium. “Barrett” - rather anachronistically called “Honest” (Robert Middleton) arrives in town bent on a little expansion. Initially, it looks like his luck might be in as an early altercation between “Cass” and one of his goons sees the lawman take a clout to the head. Shortly afterwards, headaches and double-vision ensue, and then just when he thinks things can’t be much worse for him and fiancée “Sally” (Virginia Mayo) in…

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