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The Tall Stranger

Name: The Tall Stranger
Genre: Western
Released: 1957-11-17
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 6.6

★ 6,6 /10 (21 Votes)

1957 EN 83 min

Overview

A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders.

Stream

Release date

17/11/1957

Votes

Popularity

0.6

Savagely written by the author of "Hondo"!

Genres

Western

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

83 min

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Joel McCrea

Ned Bannon

Virginia Mayo

Ellen

Barry Kelley

Hardy Bishop

Michael Ansara

Zarata

Whit Bissell

Adam Judson

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James Dobson

Dud

George N. Neise

Mort Harper (as George Neise)

Michael Pate

Charley

Leo Gordon

Stark

Ray Teal

Cap

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Phil Phillips

Will

Adam Kennedy

Red

Robert Foulk

Pagones

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Jennifer Lea

Mary

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Stephen Carr

Leonard P. Geer

William Haade

Mauritz Hugo

George J. Lewis

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Tom Lockwood

Tom London

Pierce Lyden

Don McGuire

John Mitchum

Ann Morrison

Guy Prescott

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Ralph Reed

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Danny Sands

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Bob Stratton

Original Soundtrack

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Routine plot - efficient in execution, but beware of pan and scan monstrosity. The Tall Stranger is directed by Thomas Carr and written for the screen by Christopher Knopf from a story by Louis L'Amour. It stars Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Michael Ansara, George Neise, Whit Bissell, Adam Kennedy, Barry Kelley and Leo Gordon. A CinemaScope/De Luxe color production, film is filmed on location at two ranches in California, Morrison and Russell, with Wilfred M. Cline the cinematographer. Hans J. Salter scores the music. Plot sees McCrea as Ned Bannon, who has a run in with rustlers and lef…

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“Bannon” (Joel McCrea) is minding his own business when both he and his horse fall foul of some cattle rustlers who leave him for dead. Luckily he is picked up by a wagon train, and as he recovers he helps guide them to the perfect spot by the river for them to build their settlement. The snag for these pioneers is that the land has already been claimed and they aren’t welcome. “Bannon” has history with the landowner, and so offers to broker some sort of deal to help them out and get them to move on, but the travellers are being goaded by “Harper” (George Neise) to dig their heels in and fight…

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