The Tall Stranger
Savagely written by the author of "Hondo"!
Overview
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.
- Production
- Walter Mirisch Productions
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Cast
Joel McCrea
Ned Bannon
Virginia Mayo
Ellen
Barry Kelley
Hardy Bishop
Michael Ansara
Zarata
Whit Bissell
Adam Judson
George N. Neise
Mort Harper (as George Neise)
Michael Pate
Charley
Leo Gordon
Stark
Ray Teal
Cap
Adam Kennedy
Red
Robert Foulk
Pagones
Leonard P. Geer
William Haade
Mauritz Hugo
George J. Lewis
Tom London
Pierce Lyden
Don McGuire
John Mitchum
Ann Morrison
Crew
- Director
- Thomas Carr
- Writers
- Christopher Knopf
- Producers
- Walter Mirisch
- Cinematography
- Wilfrid M. Cline
- Composer
- Hans J. Salter
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John Chard
March 3, 2020
Routine plot - efficient in execution, but beware of pan and scan monstrosity. The Tall Stranger is directed by Thomas Carr and written for the screen by Christopher Knopf from a story by Louis L'Amour. It stars Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Michael Ansara, George Neise, Whit Bissell, Adam Kennedy, Barry Kelley and Leo Gordon. A CinemaScope/De Luxe color production, film is filmed on location at two ranches in California, Morrison and Russell, with Wilfred M. Cline the cinematographer. Hans J.…
CinemaSerf
November 30, 2025
“Bannon” (Joel McCrea) is minding his own business when both he and his horse fall foul of some cattle rustlers who leave him for dead. Luckily he is picked up by a wagon train, and as he recovers he helps guide them to the perfect spot by the river for them to build their settlement. The snag for these pioneers is that the land has already been claimed and they aren’t welcome. “Bannon” has history with the landowner, and so offers to broker some sort of deal to help them out and get them to mov…