Western · United States of America · 1956 · 1h 32m

Great Day in the Morning

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Director
Jacques Tourneur
Cast
Robert Stack as Owen Pentecost Virginia Mayo as Ann Merry Alaine Ruth Roman as Boston Grant Alex Nicol as Captain Stephen Kirby Raymond Burr as Jumbo Means Leo Gordon as Zeff Masterson
Crew
William E. Snyder — Director of Photography Harry Marker — Editor Leith Stevens — Original Music Composer Lesser Samuels — Screenplay Robert Hardy Andrews — Novel Edmund Grainger — Producer
Tagline

THE BUGLE BLAST that echoed thru history!

Synopsis

After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.

Mood & Themes
hotelgunslingercard gamelove triangledenver, coloradogun battlegold prospectorsaloon girlgunfighterquick drawamerican civil wargold claim
Key Collaborators
Jacques Tourneur Director William E. Snyder Director of Photography Harry Marker Editor Leith Stevens Original Music Composer Lesser Samuels Screenplay Robert Hardy Andrews Novel Edmund Grainger Producer Gwen Wakeling Costume Design
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