(1959) Cast A Long Shadow
WESTERN
Low budget equivalent of "Red River" with Audie Murphy taking the John Wayne role and John Dehner taking the role of Montgomery Clift. It has uncle Chip Donohue (John Dehner) finding Matt Brown (Audie Murphy) in a bar getting drunk and getting into trouble until he intervened. And the purpose for Chip to finding him was to inform Matt that his dad had passed away leaving the ranch/ cattle property to him. And upon his arrival he meets former clients of Matt's dad, including the lady who runs the bar, Hortensia (Rita Lynn) and his former love interest Janet Calvert (Terry Moore). And just when he was about to sell as Matt never got along with his dad, he begins to witness scrupulous people with no good intentions how the property was going to be run. As he clashes with a nefarious guy named Mullen (Sam Best). And it was at this point, Matt decides not to sell the ranch and run it the way he'd wanted to. With a guy name Hugh Rigdon (Robert Foulk) the first to get fired from his cattle drive for disobeying his rule about drinking.
I was involved until it got toward the end when the guy Matt had fired by the name of Hugh Rigdon saved his life when Mullen attempted to shoot him, and was killed as a result despite him having a wife and kids. The fact that there was no kind of acknowledgement or an appreciation by helping Hugh's family financially by putting some money to his wife and kids for saving Matt's life, gives this movie a rather sour note.
Low budget equivalent of "Red River" with Audie Murphy taking the John Wayne role and John Dehner taking the role of Montgomery Clift. It has uncle Chip Donohue (John Dehner) finding Matt Brown (Audie Murphy) in a bar getting drunk and getting into trouble until he intervened. And the purpose for Chip to finding him was to inform Matt that his dad had passed away leaving the ranch/ cattle property to him. And upon his arrival he meets former clients of Matt's dad, including the lady who runs the bar, Hortensia (Rita Lynn) and his former love interest Janet Calvert (Terry Moore). And just when he was about to sell as Matt never got along with his dad, he begins to witness scrupulous people with no good intentions how the property was going to be run. As he clashes with a nefarious guy named Mullen (Sam Best). And it was at this point, Matt decides not to sell the ranch and run it the way he'd wanted to. With a guy name Hugh Rigdon (Robert Foulk) the first to get fired from his cattle drive for disobeying his rule about drinking.
I was involved until it got toward the end when the guy Matt had fired by the name of Hugh Rigdon saved his life when Mullen attempted to shoot him, and was killed as a result despite him having a wife and kids. The fact that there was no kind of acknowledgement or an appreciation by helping Hugh's family financially by putting some money to his wife and kids for saving Matt's life, gives this movie a rather sour note.