The Tall Stranger

The Tall Stranger

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  • Genre: Western
  • Release Date: 1957-11-17
  • Runtime: 83 minutes
  • : 6.525
  • Production Company: Walter Mirisch Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
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6.525/10
6.525
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Description

A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders.

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  • CinemaSerf

    6
    By CinemaSerf
    “Bannon” (Joel McCrea) is minding his own business when both he and his horse fall foul of some cattle rustlers who leave him for dead. Luckily he is picked up by a wagon train, and as he recovers he helps guide them to the perfect spot by the river for them to build their settlement. The snag for these pioneers is that the land has already been claimed and they aren’t welcome. “Bannon” has history with the landowner, and so offers to broker some sort of deal to help them out and get them to move on, but the travellers are being goaded by “Harper” (George Neise) to dig their heels in and fight back. Things come to an head when the bathing “Ellen” (the sparingly featured Virginia Mayo) is the victim of some unwanted advances by one of the men, and a gunfight looms large. It’s all pretty standard fayre this, with McCrea holding it together well enough as the story settles into it’s well trammelled plot and Neise delivers the kind of role I usually preferred Robert Douglas in. The romantic elements are kept to a minimum and there are enough bullets flying, especially towards the end, to keep this typically standard production moving along fine.

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