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

A cowboy sets out to help a pretty young girl who is about to lose her ranch when crooks plan to foreclose on it because she doesn't have enough money to make her mortgage payment. He puts together a cattle drive in order to sell the herd to raise the money to pay off the note, but when the crooks hear about this, they make plans to stampede the herd along the way.

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.

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.

6.1

Red River

Apr 10, 1988

Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive.

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.

7.1

The Cowboys

Jan 13, 1972

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.

6.9

The Far Country

Feb 12, 1954

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.

7.3

Red River

Sep 17, 1948

Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.

6.5

City Slickers

Jun 7, 1991

Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.

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.

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.

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...

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.

6.7

Chisum

Jul 23, 1970

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.

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...

5.4

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.

0.0

Frontier Badmen

Aug 5, 1943

A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle prices are being kept artificially low, driving down the price they'll get for their beef. They set out to change the situation.

5.9

Tension at Table Rock

Oct 3, 1956

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

7.3

Bad Jim

Apr 25, 1990

A cowpoke buys Billy the Kid's horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself.

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.