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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.
Keywords
hotel
gunslinger
card game
love triangle
denver, colorado
gun battle
gold prospector
saloon girl
gunfighter
quick draw
american civil war
knife murder
gold claim
southern gambler
gold mining
eve of war
union soldiers
gun death
eve of us civil war
confederate gold
eve of american civil war
divided loyalties
orphan boy
Casts
Robert Stack
Owen Pentecost
Virginia Mayo
Ann Merry Alaine
Ruth Roman
Boston Grant
Alex Nicol
Captain Stephen Kirby
Raymond Burr
Jumbo Means
Leo Gordon
Zeff Masterson
Regis Toomey
Father Murphy
Carleton Young
Col. Gibson
Donald MacDonald
Gary John Lawford
Kermit Maynard
Southern Sympathizer (uncredited)
Paul McGuire
Saloon Waiter (uncredited)
Burt Mustin
Doctor (uncredited)
Cap Somers
Miner (uncredited)
Dan White
Rogers (uncredited)
Lane Chandler
Northern Loyalist (uncredited)
Ben Corbett
Townsman (uncredited)
Duke Fishman
Miner (uncredited)
Al Haskell
Barfly (uncredited)
Jack Kenny
Barfly (uncredited)
Mitchell Kowall
Mower - Norther Loyalist (uncredited)
Pierce Lyden
Cowboy (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Barfly (uncredited)
Dennis Moore
Townsman (uncredited)
William Phipps
Ralston (uncredited)
Robert Robinson
Bartender (uncredited)
Buddy Roosevelt
Barfly (uncredited)
Syd Saylor
Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
Sailor Vincent
Barfly (uncredited)
George D. Wallace
Jack Lawford (uncredited)
Peter Whitney
Phil the Cannibal (uncredited)
Crews
Robert Hardy Andrews
Novel
Jacques Tourneur
Director
Cliff P. Broughton
Production Supervisor
Edmund Grainger
Producer
Leith Stevens
Original Music Composer
Terry Kellum
Sound
Harry Marker
Editor
Gwen Wakeling
Costume Design
John C. Grubb
Sound
Larry Butterworth
Makeup Artist
William E. Snyder
Director of Photography
John Burch
Unit Production Manager
James E. Casey
Assistant Director
Jack Okey
Art Direction
Annabell Levy
Hairstylist
Lesser Samuels
Screenplay
C. Bakaleinikoff
Music Director
Backdrops & Posters
