One Foot in Hell (1960)
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TV producer Aaron Spelling first came up with the story for this standard western set in a small town just after the American Civil War. Mitch (Alan Ladd) has tragically lost his wife during a problem in her pregnancy because he could not come up with $1.87 for the medicine she needed. A little twisted right from the beginning, he vows revenge. In the first step toward his goal, he gets the post of deputy sheriff from the repentant townspeople. In the second step, he murders the sheriff and then recruits a gang of disreputable toughs to steal $100,000 and bankrupt the town. In the last and fatal part of his plan for vengeance, he turns on his own gang of thieves. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alan Ladd, Don Murray, (more)
- Director(s):
- James B. Clark
Synopsis of One Foot in Hell
TV producer Aaron Spelling first came up with the story for this standard western set in a small town just after the American Civil War. Mitch (Alan Ladd) has tragically lost his wife during a problem in her pregnancy because he could not come up with $1.87 for the medicine she needed. A little twisted right from the beginning, he vows revenge. In the first step toward his goal, he gets the post of deputy sheriff from the repentant townspeople. In the second step, he murders the sheriff and then recruits a gang of disreputable toughs to steal $100,000 and bankrupt the town. In the last and fatal part of his plan for vengeance, he turns on his own gang of thieves. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Complete Cast of One Foot in Hell
- Alan Ladd - Mitch Barrett
- Dan O'Herlihy - Harry Ivers
- Barry Coe - Stu Christian
- Karl Swenson - Sheriff Olson
- Rachel Stephens - Ellie Barrett
- Ann Morriss - Nellie
- Don Murray - Dan Keats
- Dolores Michaels - Julie Reynolds
- Larry Gates - Doc Seltzer
- John Alexander - Sam Giller
- Henry Norell - George Caldwell
- Harry Carter - Mark Dobbs
- Director(s):
- James B. Clark
- Writer(s):
- Aaron Spelling, Sydney Boehm
- Producer(s):
- Sydney Boehm
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