The Iron Sheriff (1957)

Regisseur:

Sidney Salkow

Drehbuchautor:

Seeleg Lester (written by)

Premierendatum:

April 1957 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Werbezeile:

From His Leather-Tough Skin To His Cold-Steel Guts He Was All Cast Iron - ...and then he began to crack!

Plot:

When the sheriff's son is placed on trial for murdering a stagecoach driver, the sheriff desperately searches for the real killer - and finds the trail leads back to his boy. |

Plot Keywords:

Stagecoach Robbery | Criminal Investigation | Father Son Relationship | South Dakota | Sheriff

Nutzerkommentare:

Some kind of thriller western

Besetzung

Sterling Hayden	...	Sheriff Samuel 'Sam' Galt
Constance Ford	...	Claire
John Dehner	...	Roger Pollack
Kent Taylor	...	Phil Quincy
Darryl Hickman	...	Benjamin 'Benjie' Galt
Walter Sande	...	Marshal Ellison
Frank Ferguson	...	District Attorney Holloway
King Donovan	...	Leveret
Mort Mills	...	Range Detective Sutherland
Peter Miller	...	Jackson Gallagher
Kathleen Nolan	...	Kathi Walden (as Kathy Nolan)
I. Stanford Jolley	...	Eugene 'Gene' Walden
Will Wright	...	Judge
Ray Walker	...	Bilson
Robert Williams	...	Tilyou (as Bob Williams)

Länge:

73 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.37 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Drehorte:

Corriganville, Ray Corrigan Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA

Firma:

Grand Productions

Pannen:

Anachronismus: The 1891 silver dollar, around which much of the story revolves, looks nothing like an actual dollar, but more like an oversize Lincoln penny of the modern era.

Dialogzitate:

Judge: Now this is going to be a fair trial... conducted legally. A boy's life hangs in the balance.
Irate Townsman at Trial: That's about the only place he'll hang!

Some kind of thriller western

I was a bit disappointed when I discovered this feature. I expected more action. But It is no bad after all. A flat, somewhere oater western, with lots pf talk, trial, funny dialogue, and an inexpressive Sterling Hayden as ever.

But it seems to be a rare western.

Do not look for gunfights, violence or Indians in this one.

I must admit that Sidney Salkow used to show us more better action films such as Sitting Bull or Blood on the Arrow; I don't mention his pirates or other adventure movies.

In short, a unusual western that deserves to be seen.