The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones

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  • Genre: Western
  • Release Date: 1956-05-15
  • Runtime: 94 minutes
  • : 6.414
  • Production Company: 20th Century Fox
  • Production Country: United States of America
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6.414/10
6.414
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Description

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.

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  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    “Cass” (Robert Ryan) is the sheriff of a frontier town who just about manages to keep law an order. Then a blast from his past arrives to upset his carefully crafted equilibrium. “Barrett” - rather anachronistically called “Honest” (Robert Middleton) arrives in town bent on a little expansion. Initially, it looks like his luck might be in as an early altercation between “Cass” and one of his goons sees the lawman take a clout to the head. Shortly afterwards, headaches and double-vision ensue, and then just when he thinks things can’t be much worse for him and fiancée “Sally” (Virginia Mayo) in rides “Thad” (Jeffrey Hunter). He’s running with some beeves but, believe it or not, he also has an axe to grind with the “Cass” who killed his pa. Now, with his eyesight failing and “Honest” seeing a chance to cement his control of a town of largely spineless and venal folk, “Cass” has to convince the young “Thad” that his father wasn’t the man he thought he was, and that he ought to think about taking a badge himself. Though he doesn’t really feature so often, it’s really Middleton’s suave and sophisticated character that helps make this western just a bit different from the usual processional affair. Ryan, too, delivers solidly as his character must deal with the fact that his sight is failing, and therefore so is his usefulness - to the town and to his gal. Hunter does enough and Mayo, well I think she only ever had parts designed to let her smile but never really contribute much more, and there are a few scenes here that keep the action front and centre. I was surprised at just how underused Walter Brennan was, but it’s still an enjoyable outing peppered with some menace as we go along.

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