Cast a Long Shadow

Aug 24, 1959

1h 22m

★ 6.4

The roughest vengeance-trail a man ever rode!

Overview

A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

The Mirisch Company

United Artists

Cast a Long Shadow Trailers

Cast

Matt Brown

Audie Murphy

Janet Calvert

Terry Moore

Chip Donahue

John Dehner

Ma Calvert

Ann Doran

Sam Mullen

James Best

Preacher Harrison

Denver Pyle

Hugh Rigdon

Robert Foulk

Hortensia

Rita Lynn

Eph Brown (as Stacy S. Harris)

Stacy Harris

Noah Pringle

Wright King

Arthur Berkeley

Jimmie Booth

When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.

7.6

The Big Country

Sep 30, 1958

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.

6.8

Hang 'em High

Apr 12, 1968

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.

6.4

The Tall Men

Sep 22, 1955

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

6.2

Blood on the Moon

Nov 11, 1948

Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.

6.1

Comes a Horseman

Oct 25, 1978

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.

6.3

Cowboy

Jan 23, 1958

Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...

0.0

North of 36

Mar 20, 1926

A young woman inherits her father's large Texas ranch and plans to begin a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas, 1000 miles away. The crooked State Treasurer plans to attack the cattle drive and steal all of the stock so he can gain control of her ranch.

5.4

Pocket Money

Feb 1, 1972

Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy and his buddy get mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked cattle dealer.

5.0

San Antone

Feb 15, 1953

After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French...

5.5

Hopalong Rides Again

Aug 20, 1937

On a cattle drive Hoppy, camp cook Windy, companion Lucky, and young Artie Peters encounter an eccentric professor. The professor professes to be searching for the evolutionary missing link, but in reality he is a cattle rustler who uses his dynamite to scatter the cattle in order capture some of them. Hoppy and Bar 20 guys ultimately capture the professor.

5.9

Tension at Table Rock

Oct 3, 1956

When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.

5.2

The Showdown

Aug 15, 1950

Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for the two of them. At the saloon-hotel run by Adelaide, Shadrach is convinced that one of the cowhands on the Captain McKellar cattle drive to Montana is his man. He takes the job of trail-herd boss to find the killer. McKellar preaches to Jones that he should forget revenge and let the law of retribution take care of the killer. Shadrach's hard driving of the men and his hunt for the killer makes him bitterly hated, and his retribution quest ends in a manner he did not anticipated.

5.8

Gun Glory

Jul 19, 1957

An ex-gunslinger returns home; shunned by townsfolk he is the only one who knows how to stop a ruthless cattleman from driving his herd through their town.