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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 .
- $1.4 million (US rentals)
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.
- Anthony Mann
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- 2 min
The Tin Star (1957) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Morgan Hickman (Henry Fonda) is a tough gunslinger with a knack for keeping his cool in tense situations. When he wanders into a town where the local lawman has been killed, he finds callow but ...
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- Henry Fonda
- Anthony Mann
- Western
The Tin Star is also concerned with the merits and potential pitfalls of "going it alone," of standing up for right and wrong, even if you have to do it by yourself. This was a theme that Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952) tackled within the context of McCarthyism, a virulent presence still felt in Hollywood in the late 1950s when The Tin Star ...
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. Meanwhile Ben asks Hickman to teach him to be a sheriff since ...
