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Along the Great Divide is a 1951 American Western film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar and Walter Brennan. It was Douglas's first Western, a genre that served him well during his long career.
Along the Great Divide: Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar, Walter Brennan. A U.S. Marshall and two deputies rescue a cattle rustler from a lynch mob led by a local cattle baron convinced that the rustler also killed his son.
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- Western
- Raoul Walsh
- 1951-06-02
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Feb 6, 2020 · Directed by Raoul Walsh and filmed in the rugged High Sierras and Mojave Desert, Along the Great Divide is a lean, bullet-hard sagebrush saga. Douglas plays a U.S. Marshal who rescues an...
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- Warner Bros. Classics
Jul 16, 2023 · Kirk Douglas plays Len Merrick, a U.S. marshal who interrupts the hanging of Pop Keith (Walter Brennen). The old man has been accused of killing the favorite son of powerful rancher Ed Roden (Morris Ankrum) because Pop was found with rustled cattle near the younger Roden’s body.
Warner Brothers' Along the Great Divide (1951) was the first western for Kirk Douglas, then only five years into his film career and known principally to moviegoers for his gritty roles in such downbeat urban dramas as Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947) and Mark Robson's Champion (1949).
- Raoul Walsh, Oren Haglund
- Kirk Douglas
In an amazing career that spanned 70 years, this movie is Kirk Douglas’s very first Western! After rescuing a cattle rustler from a lynch mob, United States Marshal Len Merrick vows to keep Tim “Pop” Keith alive long enough to stand trial.
A U.S. marshal (Kirk Douglas) leads a lynch-mob survivor, his daughter (Virginia Mayo) and others across the desert to justice.
- Western
