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Cattle Empire

The war of the ranch kings stampedes the West's wildest cattle empire

6.0 / 10

83 minutes

1958-04-01

English

US

Actors :

Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates, Bing Russell, Richard Shannon, Paul Brinegar, Charles H. Gray, Art Felix, Ted Smile, Howard Culver, Steve Raines

Description

After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree, a trail boss is hired by the same town's leading citizen to drive their cattle to Fort Clemson. Complicating matters, a rival cattle baron also hires the cattle driver to lead his herd.

Reviews

John Chard

John Chard

5/16/2024, 3:22:11 PM

The Town Of Hamilton Bids You Welcome. Joel McCrea stars as a trail boss falsely imprisoned for his men's misdemeanours. Released and suffering at the hands of an unforgiving and irate town, he's hired by a blind Don Haggerty to drive his herd - but Haggerty has his own agenda's on this trip. A routine Western that is chiefly saved from the bottom rung by the presence of Joel McCrea. McCrea ...

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

11/5/2023, 9:09:18 AM

Joel McCrea holds this cattle-driving western together competently enough as "Cord", a man who must get his huge herd of cows to market. Problem is, one herd belongs to the citizens of a town that he let his previous crew trash - earning him a five year spell in jail. The other herd is owned by a competitor - so no easy task here for the man. Unusually for the genre, and thankfully here, we have a...