The Tall Stranger
Nov 17 1957
•1h 23m
•Western
A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders.
Cast
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Joel McCrea
Ned Bannon
Virginia Mayo
Ellen
Barry Kelley
Hardy Bishop
Michael Ansara
Zarata
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