The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones

A MAN OF FIERCE PRIDE...and six-guns to match!

Directed by Robert D. Webb

Produced by 20th Century Fox

195694 min6.5 / 10

A classic Western about an aging sheriff's struggle with pride, past sins, and physical decline as he faces both external threats and internal reckoning.

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Proud Ones violent? Somewhat. More violent than 71% of films.

  • Is The Proud Ones scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 61% of films.

  • Is The Proud Ones sad? Somewhat. More sad than 61% of films.

  • Does The Proud Ones end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is The Proud Ones easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

42/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

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Rarity30

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Surprise52

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love45

How much audiences actually like it

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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