Stranger on Horseback

Mar 22, 1955

1h 6m

★ 5.4

A Killer's Paradise ... then one day a stranger rode in with a challenge ... a stranger the West would never forget !

Overview

A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Robert Goldstein Productions

United Artists

Leonard Goldstein

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Cast

Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne

Joel McCrea

Amy Lee Bannerman

Miroslava

Tom Bannerman

Kevin McCarthy

Josiah Bannerman

John McIntire

Col. Buck Streeter

John Carradine

Caroline Webb

Nancy Gates

Sheriff Nat Bell

Emile Meyer

Arnold Hammer

Robert Cornthwaite

Paula Morrison (as Jacklyn Green)

Jaclynne Greene

Vince Webb

Walter Baldwin

Barfly

Emmett Lynn

Sam Kettering

Roy Roberts

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0.0

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0.0

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7.6

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7.2

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6.8

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6.3

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6.8

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6.6

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5.0

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6.0

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6.1

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7.7

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