STRANGER ON HORSEBACK
Product Details
Format: DVD
Version: Widescreen
Rating: NR
Runtime: 66 minutes
Aspect: 1.85:1
Year: 1955
Item #: KPF578
Region: NTSC
Audio: Dolby Digital
Color: Color
Language: English
Country: USA
UPC: 089859057823
ISBN: 1-55739-905-0
Summary
Joel McCrea brings law and order to the range in “Stranger on Horseback”. McCrea portrays a circuit judge Richard Thorne, who comes to a small western town in the course of making his rounds. There he finds the town and surrounding area under the feudal thumb of an oldline family headed by Josiah Bannerman (John McIntire). Despite wholehearted opposition and obstacles, Thorne fingers Bannerman’s spoiled son, Tom (Kevin McCarthy) for murder and smokes out the necessary frightened witnesses and defies the whole clan by seeing that justice is done. In doing so he even wins the grudging respect of the old cattle baron, gains the love of the latter’s strong-willed niece, Amy (Miroslava Stern), and awakens the sheriff (Emile Meyer) to a new sense of duty.
Bonus Features:
Scene Selection
Trailers
Radio Hour: Radio Shows: Tales of Texas Rangers, Audio biographies by Joel Blumberg
Original Theatrical Trailer
Adlets: Lonesome Trail DF, Tall Texan, Western Noir DF, Great Jesse James Raid & Other Legendary Outlaws
Actors
Joel McCrea
Miroslava
Kevin McCarthy
John McIntire
John Carradine
Nancy Gates
Emile Meyer
Robert Cornthwaite
Jaclynne Greene
Walter Baldwin
Emmett Lynn
Roy Roberts
George Keymas
Director
Jacques Tourneu
Customer Reviews
One of McCrea's better oaters, 11/3/2008 10:07:03 PM
Reviewer: parsifalCSA
Of all the major Westerns-oriented actors of the 1950s, Joel McCrea is still the most neglected. VCI's decision, then, to release the taut STRANGER ON HORSEBACK is a welcomed event, not the least because this is one of McCrea's better oaters from the 1950s. The solid cast includes stalwarts like John McIntyre and Kevin McCarthy; the plot is barebones, but straightforward---a no nonsense marshal rides into town and tackles the town's land baron. The color print is acceptable but not brilliant, but certainly watchable. What makes STRANGER ON HORSEBACK a winner is the winning way of McCrea himself. He seems to have been born on horseback (well, he was a real-life cowboy). In any case, it is certainly recommended. Now, let's have some of his other Westerns---Universal's SADDLE TRAMP, BORDER RIVER, and CATTLE DRIVE, for instance, or certainly, Jacques Tourneur/Allied Artist's little masterpiece, WICHITA, of THE FIRST TEXAN. And there are others....
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