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Stranger on horseback, United Artists ; screenplay by Don Martin and Herb Meadow ; produced by Robert Goldstein ; directed by Jacques Tourneur

eng

videorecording

MPAA rating: Not rated

Stranger on horseback

videorecording

266064902

United Artists ; screenplay by Don Martin and Herb Meadow ; produced by Robert Goldstein ; directed by Jacques Tourneur

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Joel McCrea portrays a circuit judge Richard Thorne, who comes to a small western town in the course of making his rounds. There he finds the town and surrounding area under the feudal thumb of an oldline family headed by Josiah Bannerman (John McIntire). Despite wholehearted opposition and obstacles, Thorne fingers Bannerman's spoiled son, Tom (Kevin McCarthy) for murder and smokes out the necessary frightened witnesses. In doing so, he wins the grudging respect of the old cattle baron, gains the love of the latter's strong-willed niece, Amy (Miroslava Stern), and awakens the sheriff (Emile Meyer) to a new sense of duty

general

live action