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Joel McCrea brings law and order to the range in “Stranger on Horseback”. 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 old-line 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 and defies the whole clan by seeing that justice is done. In doing so he even 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.
Original Release
03/22/1955
US Release
03/22/1955
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Joel McCrea | Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne |
Miroslava | Amy Lee Bannerman |
Kevin McCarthy | Tom Bannerman |
John McIntire | Josiah Bannerman |
John Carradine | Col. Buck Streeter |
Nancy Gates | Caroline Webb |
Emile Meyer | Sheriff Nat Bell |
Robert Cornthwaite | Arnold Hammer |
Jaclynne Greene | Paula Morrison / Paula Morrison (as Jacklyn Green) |
Walter Baldwin | Vince Webb |
Directors
Writers
Herb Meadow, Don Martin, Louis L'Amour
Cast
Name | Character |
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Joel McCrea | Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne |
Miroslava | Amy Lee Bannerman |
Kevin McCarthy | Tom Bannerman |
John McIntire | Josiah Bannerman |
John Carradine | Col. Buck Streeter |
Nancy Gates | Caroline Webb |
Emile Meyer | Sheriff Nat Bell |
Robert Cornthwaite | Arnold Hammer |
Jaclynne Greene | Paula Morrison / Paula Morrison (as Jacklyn Green) |
Walter Baldwin | Vince Webb |
Emmett Lynn | Barfly |
Roy Roberts | Sam Kettering |
George Keymas | Bannerman's Henchman |
Fred Aldrich | Blacksmith |
Lane Bradford | Kettering Henchman |
Doyle Brooks | Bannerman Cowhand |
George DeNormand | Jesse Taylor |
Dabbs Greer | Hotel Clerk |
Frank Hagney | Bartender |
Chick Hannan | Bannerman Cowhand |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Robert Goldstein | Producer |