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The Proud Ones (1956)

Directed by Robert D. Webb

Overview

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.

Rated NR | Length 94 minutes

Actors

Robert Ryan | Virginia Mayo | Jeffrey Hunter | Robert Middleton | Walter Brennan | Arthur O'Connell | Rodolfo Acosta | Ken Clark | George Mathews | Fay Roope | Edward Platt | Whit Bissell | Robert Adler | Walter Bacon | Don Brodie | Paul E. Burns | Harry Carter | Noble Chissell | Jackie Coogan | Steve Darrell | Richard Deacon | William Fawcett | Frank Gerstle | Michael Jeffers | Dick Johnstone | I. Stanford Jolley | Joe Phillips | Joe Ploski | Bob Reeves | Ray Spiker | Charles Tannen | Ken Terrell | Jack Tornek