The read
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 86% of the 185 1950s western movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
246 audience votes
Key crew
- Reginald RoseScreenplay
- Anthony MannDirector
- Leigh HarlineOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Gary CooperLink Jones
- Julie LondonBillie Ellis
- Lee J. CobbDock Tobin
- Arthur O'ConnellSam Beasley
- Jack LordCoaley
- John DehnerClaude Tobin
- Royal DanoTrout
- Robert J. WilkePonch
- Joe DominguezMexican Man (uncredited)
- Dick ElliottWillie (uncredited)
- Frank FergusonCrosscut Marshal (uncredited)
- Herman HackTrain Passenger (uncredited)
Stills
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Themes
train robberygrave diggingformer outlawold ganggang of outlawsreformed criminal