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If there's one word in Powder Valley's cattle country that makes the locals' jaws clench and trigger-fingers twitch, here it is: sheep. But easygoing Jason Sweet won a trainload of sheep in a poker game and he aims to graze them. And rolling, green Powder Valley looks like the perfect place.
In the year he was named the top male box-office draw, Glenn Ford strapped on his sidearm and his sense of humor to portray Jason. George Marshall, who showed how the West was fun in Destry Rides Again, directs Ford, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen (as the villain) and more familiar talents in a tale that combines genre sendups with showdown heroics. The Sheepman: Smile when you say that, pardner!
Original Release
05/01/1958
US Release
05/07/1958
Cast
Name | Character |
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Glenn Ford | Jason Sweet |
Shirley MacLaine | Dell Payton |
Leslie Nielsen | Col. Stephen Bedford |
Mickey Shaughnessy | Jumbo McCall |
Edgar Buchanan | Milt Masters |
Willis Bouchey | Frank Payton |
Pernell Roberts | Chocktaw Neal |
Slim Pickens | Marshal |
Robert 'Buzz' Henry | Red |
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez | Angelo |
Directors
Writers
William Bowers, James Edward Grant, William Roberts
Cast
Name | Character |
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Glenn Ford | Jason Sweet |
Shirley MacLaine | Dell Payton |
Leslie Nielsen | Col. Stephen Bedford |
Mickey Shaughnessy | Jumbo McCall |
Edgar Buchanan | Milt Masters |
Willis Bouchey | Frank Payton |
Pernell Roberts | Chocktaw Neal |
Slim Pickens | Marshal |
Robert 'Buzz' Henry | Red |
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez | Angelo |
Richard Alexander | Barfly |
Leon Alton | Party Guest |
Roscoe Ates | Town Loafer |
Emile Avery | Party Guest |
Walter Bacon | Townsman |
Irene Barton | Mme. Fifi |
Danny Borzage | Accordionist |
John Bose | Townsman |
George Boyce | Party Guest |
Lane Bradford | Ranch Hand |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Edmund Grainger | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1959 | Oscar | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen | Nominated |