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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 .
A former sheriff turned bounty hunter helps a young acting sheriff in a town under threat from a gang. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Oscar-nominated film.
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A western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins and Betsy Palmer. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers and other crew members who worked on The Tin Star.
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 classic Western story by John M. Cunningham, adapted into the movie High Noon. It depicts a sheriff who faces a vengeful gang in a small town, despite his arthritis and resignation.
May 6, 2021 · The Tin Star, starring Henry Fonda. After bringing in a dead suspect Henry Fonda who plays an ex-sheriff turned bounty hunter unequivocally states, “Fair fight, you won’t find any bullet...
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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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