USA,
1958, 80 min
Directed by:
Joseph H. LewisScreenplay:
Dalton TrumboCinematography:
Ray RennahanComposer:
Gerald FriedCast:
Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugene Mazzola, Fred Kohler Jr., Glenn Strange, Sheb Wooley, Marilee Earle, Byron Foulger, Frank Ferguson (more)Plots(1)
McNeil (Sebastian Cabot, The Time Machine) is a greedy hotel owner who wants to take control of Prairie City, the Texas town of the title. Keen to drive the local farmers of their land, McNeil hires a gunman, Johnny Crale (Nedrick Young, who would pen the Oscar-winning screenplay for The Defiant Ones the same year), resulting in the death of a former whaler. The dead man’s son, George Hansen (Sterling Hayden, The Killing), arrives in town to inherit the farm and set the stage for revenge – armed with only his father’s old harpoon… (Arrow Academy)
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