The Tall Stranger

The Tall Stranger

1957 · 83 min · EN · NR · 6.5 (23 votes)
Dir. Thomas Carr · Starring Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Ansara, Whit Bissell, James Dobson · Music Hans J. Salter

“Savagely written by the author of "Hondo"!”

Western

A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders.

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This classic Western delivers a tense, gritty experience, steeped in the rugged drama of post-Civil War frontier life. It's a tale of divided loyalties and the fight for land, unfolding with propulsive energy. Expect morally complex characters navigating a landscape of simmering conflict and family strife.

tensegrittyruggeddramaticmorally ambiguouspropulsiveclassic Westernrugged realismfrontier dramaland rightsdivided loyaltiespost-war conflictfamily strifejustice
land war