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Wichita (1955) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Italian ( Mono )

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

Running Time:
78 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Posters
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1955 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jacques Tourneur

Written By:
Daniel B. Ullman

Actors:
Joel McCrea ..... Wyatt Earp
Vera Miles ..... Laurie McCoy
Lloyd Bridges ..... Gyp Clements
Wallace Ford ..... Arthur Whiteside
Edgar Buchanan ..... Doc Black
Peter Graves ..... Morgan Earp
Keith Larsen ..... Bat Masterson
Carl Benton Reid ..... Mayor Andrew Hoke
John Smith ..... Jim Earp
Walter Coy ..... Sam McCoy
Robert J. Wilke ..... Ben Thompson
Walter Sande ..... Clint Wallace
Jack Elam ..... Al Mann
Mae Clarke ..... Mary Elizabeth McCoy
Gene Wesson ..... Robber #1

Synopsis:

Filmed around the same time as Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wichita is a more modest--and to some, more entertaining--slant on the Wyatt Earp legend. Joel McCrea does his usual smooth, underplayed job as Earp, who aims to bring law and order to the wide-open cow town of Wichita. His least popular move is to take away the guns of everyone in town, no matter how important. Only when town banker McCoy (Walter Coy) is hit with a personal tragedy does Earp's no-guns edict begin to make sense. Linking the episodic storyline is an offscreen ballad, sung High Noon style by Tex Ritter. Interestingly, Joel McCrea would later star in the 1959 TV western Wichita Town--though not, of course, as Wyatt Earp (Hugh O'Brien was busy with that character on another network!)

Western. Story of a frontier marshall who brings law and order to the district.

Wyatt Earp is hired by a western town to bring some law and order to a place that is being raided by outlaws.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 24 September, 2020.