Wichita (1955)
- Starring:
- Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jacques Tourneur
Synopsis of Wichita
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!) ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Wichita
- Joel McCrea - Wyatt Earp
- Lloyd Bridges - Gyp
- Edgar Buchanan - Doc Black
- Keith Larsen - Bat Masterson
- Walter Coy - McCoy
- Rayford Barnes - Hal Clements
- Gene Wesson - first Robber
- Carl Benton Reid - Mayor
- Vera Miles - Laurie
- Wallace Ford - Whiteside
- Peter Graves - Morgan Earp
- John Smith - Jim Earp
- Walter Sande - Wallace
- Mae Clarke - Mrs. McCoy
- Jack Elam - Al
- Bob Wilke - Ben Thompson
- Director(s):
- Jacques Tourneur
- Writer(s):
- Dan Ullman
- Producer(s):
- Walter Mirisch, Victor Heerman
- 1955 - Golden Globe - Best Picture - Outdoor Drama
- 1955 - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Picture - Outdoor Drama
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