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The Tin Star is a 1957 American Western film based on a short story, directed in VistaVision by Anthony Mann and starring Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins, in one of Perkins' first roles. The film became one of the few low-budget westerns to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Writing, Story or Screenplay .
The Tin Star: Directed by Anthony Mann. With Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michel Ray. A cynical former sheriff turned bounty hunter helps a young, recently appointed acting sheriff with his advice, his experience and his gun.
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Based on the story The Tin Badge by Barney Slater and Joel Kane, aging screenwriter Dudley Nichols fashioned The Tin Star (1957), a straightforward Western of an older man trying to impart some hard-won wisdom to a young greenhorn who's trying to do right in a world often gone wrong.
“The Tin Star” is a short Western story by John M. Cunningham, first published in 1947. It’s his most famous story, and was the basis for the popular 1952 Western movie, High Noon. It’s about a sheriff who’s anticipating the return of a man who vowed revenge on him five years ago.
When the experienced bounty-hunter and former sheriff Morg Hickman arrives in a town to claim his bounty for killing a wanted outlaw, he meets the rookie temporary sheriff Ben Owens. Hickman befriends the boy Kip (Michel Ray) and is lodged by his widow mother Nona Mayfield at home.
When he wanders into a town where the local lawman has been killed, he finds callow but eager Ben Owens (Anthony Perkins) temporarily acting as sheriff. Soon Ben, who wants to keep his new ...
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Jul 14, 2023 · Anthony Perkins as Ben Owens, a young man determined to prove he can handle a sheriff’s badge in The Tin Star (1957) Review: Director Anthony Mann serves up an intelligent, well-done Western. As Fonda’s character finds new purpose, Perkins’ tin-star wearing temporary sheriff comes of age.
Anthony Perkins plays Ben Owens, a greenhorn sheriff who hasn't worn his badge long... and won't live to wear it much longer unless he gets some savvy help. Fonda, bringing to his role the...
For $40 a month and a shiny Tin Star…the young sheriff faced the mob alone…except for the angry ex-sheriff who couldn’t watch him die and a hero-worshipping boy who lived only for the day he’d wear a Tin Star of his own!
