A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
May 15, 1956
Original Title:
The Proud Ones
Alternate Titles:
Die Furchtlosen
Le shérif
Genres:
Western
Production Companies:
20th Century Fox
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12 IE: G US: NR
Runtime: 94
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.
Art Direction:
Lyle R. Wheeler
Leland Fuller
Assistant Director:
Ad Schaumer
Costume Design:
Travilla
Director:
Robert D. Webb
Director of Photography:
Lucien Ballard
Editor:
Hugh S. Fowler
Hairstylist:
Helen Turpin
Makeup Artist:
Ben Nye
Novel:
Verne Athanas
Orchestrator:
Maurice De Packh
Original Music Composer:
Lionel Newman
Producer:
Robert L. Jacks
Screenplay:
Edmund H. North
Joseph Petracca
Set Decoration:
Walter M. Scott
Fred R. Simpson
Sound:
W.D. Flick
Harry M. Leonard
Special Effects:
Ray Kellogg
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