
Overview:
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.Status: | Released (1958-06-20) |
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Screen: | Will C. Brown, Reginald Rose |
Productions: | Ashton Productions, United Artists |
Production Countries: | United States of America |
Spoken Languages: | English, Español |

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Casts
- 4068: Gary Cooper - Link Jones
- 50760: Julie London - Billie Ellis
- 5248: Lee J. Cobb - Dock Tobin
- 857: Arthur O'Connell - Sam Beasley
- 9873: Jack Lord - Coaley
- 82863: John Dehner - Claude Tobin
- 19968: Royal Dano - Trout
Crews
- 1125462: Will C. Brown - Novel - Writing
- 5246: Reginald Rose - Screenplay - Writing
- 5467: Leigh Harline - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 14523: Walter Mirisch - Producer - Production
- 2774: Ernest Haller - Director of Photography - Camera
- 30106: Hilyard M. Brown - Art Direction - Art
- 40199: Anthony Mann - Director - Directing
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Reviews
John Chard
Review text:
Another Intelligent Western from Anthony Mann. Link Jones is on his way to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher, having left his wife and children behind, Link appears to be the epitome of the simple honest man. However, the train he is on is robbed by outlaws, thus meaning that Lin ....
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This is a much grittier western than I am used to from Anthony Mann; giving Gary Cooper much more to get his teeth into than the usual, simple, gun-slinging fayre. He plays a reformed outlaw who is caught up in a train ambush. "Link" escapes with two other passengers and makes his wa ....
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