The King and Four Queens ( 1956 ) ( The King & 4 Queens )

The King and Four Queens ( 1956 ) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: The King & 4 Queens
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
86 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1956 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Raoul Walsh

Written By:
Margaret Fitts

Actors:
Clark Gable ..... Dan Kehoe
Eleanor Parker ..... Sabina McDade
Jean Willes ..... Ruby McDade
Barbara Nichols ..... Birdie McDade
Sara Shane ..... Oralie McDade
Roy Roberts ..... Sheriff Tom Larrabee
Arthur Shields ..... Padre
Jay C. Flippen ..... Bartender of Rosebud Saloon in Touchstone
Jo Van Fleet ..... Ma McDade

Synopsis:

Gable stars as Western fugitive Dan Kehoe, who hides out in a small ghost town. Here he whiles away his time with the town's only inhabitants: Ma MacDade (Jo Van Fleet), matriarch of the outlaw McDade family, and the four wives (Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols, and Sara Shane) of Mrs. McDade's gunslinging sons. Three of the four McDade boys are dead; the fourth is expected to return at any minute with the loot from a recent stagecoach robbery. Since no one knows which of the McDades is dead, all four wives make a play for the bemused Kehoe; he in turn responds to their advances, hoping to get a share of the gold. The fur really begins to fly when it turns out that one of the wives is a phony who intends to double-cross the other three and ride off into the sunset with Kehoe. When The King and Four Queens proved a box-office disappointment, Clark Gable gave up the notion of producing his own films and returned to freelancing at the major studios.

Opportunistic con man, Dan Kehoe, is on the run when he stops off at a small town saloon and hears stories of the four notorious McDade Brothers. Three of the career outlaws were killed on their last job while one escaped, although it's unknown which one. Hearing that their $50,000 cache of stolen gold is hidden somewhere on the family ranch at Wagon Mount, Kehoe ignores warnings about their feisty mother, who dislikes visitors and is a crack shot, and ingratiates himself with the old woman with a phony story about meeting her surviving son in a jail cell. He also uses his charm on the four beautiful man-hungry McDade widows, who have stayed with their cantankerous mother-in-law for the past two years - each hoping that her husband is the surviving son and sole claimant to the money. Ma guards her daughter-in-law's chastity as tightly as the hidden gold and soon realizes that with Kehoe, she has let the fox into the henhouse.

Smooth cowboy Dan Kehoe arrives at a ranch run by an old widow and her four daughters-in-law. He's been tipped off that the proceeds of a gold robbery are hidden on the ranch and only one of the women knows where. He plays them off against each other in his quest to discover the location.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 07 November, 2013.