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)
When George Hansen (Hayden) arrives in Prairie City, Texas, to help manage his family's fledgling farm, he finds that his father has been mysteriously murdered and no one in town not even the sheriff plans to do anything about it! Determined to track down the killer himself, Hansen learns that a ruthless oil prospector and his vicious group of hired guns have been forcing immigrant farmers to sell their mineral-rich land or pay for it with their lives. Despite crooked lawmen, brutal ambushes and terrorized townsfolk, Hansen tracks down his father's killer and faces off against the enemy in a remarkable showdown. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Sterling Hayden](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/570/164570668_8c2e9a.jpg)
Sterling Hayden
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather (1972)
![Sebastian Cabot](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/129/160129294_6e8e4e.jpg)
Sebastian Cabot
UK
Best movies:
Romeo and Juliet (1954)
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) - narrator
Carol Kelly
Best movies:
All Fall Down (1962)
Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Eugene Mazzola
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Walk the Proud Land (1956)
Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Fred Kohler Jr.
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
![Glenn Strange](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/031/567/31567816_a9260b.jpg)
Glenn Strange
USA
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Brute Force (1947)
The Lusty Men (1952)
![Sheb Wooley](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/673/158673735_583de0.jpg)
Sheb Wooley
USA
Marilee Earle
USA
Best movies:
Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
![Byron Foulger](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000086_3c7dff.jpg)
Byron Foulger
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
![Frank Ferguson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000173_a9fd3d.jpg)
Frank Ferguson
USA
Best movies:
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
![Jeffrey Sayre](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/162/159162653_651df8.jpg)
Jeffrey Sayre
USA
Best movies:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
![Jack Tornek](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/872/159872450_901c6d.jpg)
Jack Tornek
Belarus
Best movies:
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Proud Ones (1956)
![Ted Stanhope](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/894/159894228_20a693.gif)
Ted Stanhope
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
High Noon (1952)
Three Little Words (1950)
![Hank Patterson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/929/159929284_6e2460.gif)
Hank Patterson
USA
Best movies:
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
Julie (1956)
The Gunfighter (1950)
![Herman Hack](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/935/159935045_203895.jpg)
Herman Hack
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Steve Mitchell
USA
Best movies:
The Killing (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Once a Thief (1965)
![Victor Millan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/343/160343006_ed8d30.jpg)
Victor Millan
USA
Best movies:
Scarface (1983)
Giant (1956)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Nedrick Young
USA
Best movies:
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Gun Crazy (1950)
Seconds (1966)
Tyler McVey
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Kansas Moehring
USA
Best movies:
Captain Blood (1935)
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Rainmaker (1956)