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Stranger on Horseback(1955)
Status: Released
Date: 1955-03-22
58%
23 Votes
Time: 1h 6m
A Killer's Paradise ... then one day a stranger rode in with a challenge ... a stranger the West would never forget !
Overview:
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Robert Goldstein Productions
Leonard Goldstein
Movie: Stranger on Horseback
Top 10 Billed Cast
Joel McCrea
Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne
Miroslava
Amy Lee Bannerman
Kevin McCarthy
Tom Bannerman
John McIntire
Josiah Bannerman
John Carradine
Col. Buck Streeter
Nancy Gates
Caroline Webb
Emile Meyer
Sheriff Nat Bell
Robert Cornthwaite
Arnold Hammer
Jaclynne Greene
Paula Morrison (as Jacklyn Green)
Walter Baldwin
Vince Webb
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Overview
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.
Release Date
1955-03-22
Average
5.761
Rating:
2.9 startsTagline
A Killer's Paradise ... then one day a stranger rode in with a challenge ... a stranger the West would never forget !
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