The Proud Ones

"A MAN OF FIERCE PRIDE...and six-guns to match!"

May 1 1956 Approved 1h 34m
Western

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.

Plot

Marshal Silver is run out of town under suspicion of being a trigger-happy killer after shooting a hired gun of Honest John Barrett. A placid life in a new town is interrupted by the reappearance of Barrett, old enemies and the son of the hired gun from years ago, Anderson.

Written by

Edmund H. North, Joseph Petracca, Verne Athanas

Directed by

Robert D. Webb

Cast

Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo, Jeffrey Hunter

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Languages

Español, English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
1,729
Average Rating
6.9 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA