The Tall Stranger 1957 Joel McCrea & Virginia Mayo

(Based on a Louis L'Amour book)

I would say this might be one of Joel McCrea's top four or five western movies of all time!

This is also the second and last movie that Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo did together (The first being Colorado Territory in 1949).

Plot: Union vet Ned (Joel McCrea), gunned down by some tough cattle rustlers, comes to in a wagon train under the care of kindly widow Ellen (Virginia Mayo), but as he heals, he senses all is not well and realizes that the suspicious men leading the train are taking the settlers to land owned by his estranged half-brother, an embittered man who will shoot any strangers. Ned then tries to warn the pioneers, while preparing to face the sibling who harbors a deep-seated grudge against him.

Cast: Joel McCrea (As Ned Bannon), Virginia Mayo (As Ellen), Barry Kelly (As Hardy Bishop), George Neise (As Mort Harper), Michael Ansara (As Zarata), Leo Gordon (As Stark), Ray Teal (As Cap), Whit Bissell (As Adam Judson), Michael Pate (As Charley), James Dobson (As Dud), Jennifer Lea (As Mary), and Robert Foulk (As Pagones).

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