The Last Posse (1953)
- Starring:
- Broderick Crawford, John Derek, (more)
- Director(s):
- Alfred L. Werker
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After his Oscar win for All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford found himself working out his Columbia contract in a string of rapidly deteriorating films. The Last Posse was a middling western, the sort that the studio sent out as bottom-of-bill attractions for their prestige pictures. The posse of the title, headed by sheriff Crawford, is a group of ostensibly honest townsfolk. When they catch up with the desperadoes who robbed a wealthy cattle baron, some of the posse members are overcome by greed and plot to keep the stolen loot for themselves. Once Crawford is wounded in a shootout, avarice prevails. There are no real winners at the end, as the remaining posse members straggle back to town, their heads hung in shame. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Broderick Crawford - Sheriff Frazier
- Charles Bickford - Sampson Drune
- Warner Anderson - Robert Emerson
- Will Wright - Todd Mitchell
- Raymond Greenleaf - Albert Hagen
- Skip Homeier - Art Romer
- Guy Wilkerson - George Romer
- Helen Wallace - Mrs. White
- Monte Blue - Kane
- John Derek - Jed Clayton
- Wanda Hendrix - Deborah Morley
- Henry Hull - Stokely
- Tom Powers - Frank White
- Eddy Waller - Dr. Pryor
- James Bell - Will Romer
- Mira McKinney - Mrs. Mitchell
- Harry Hayden - Davis
- James Kirkwood - Judge Parker
- Director(s):
- Alfred L. Werker
- Writer(s):
- Kenneth Gamet
- Producer(s):
- Harry Joe Brown
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