Stranger on Horseback
A Killer's Paradise ... then one day a stranger rode in with a challenge ... a stranger the West would never forget !
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Produced by Robert Goldstein Productions, United Artists
A classic Western about a principled circuit judge confronting corruption and power, driven by themes of justice against entrenched wealth and influence.
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.
Essence
Ensemble
Joel McCrea
Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
Miroslava
Amy Lee Bannerman
Kevin McCarthy
Tom Bannerman
John McIntire
Josiah Bannerman
John Carradine
Col. Buck Streeter
Nancy Gates
Caroline Webb
Emile Meyer
Sheriff Nat Bell
Robert Cornthwaite
Arnold Hammer
Jaclynne Greene
Paula Morrison
Walter Baldwin
Vince Webb
Emmett Lynn
Barfly
Roy Roberts
Sam Kettering
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