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Great Day in the Morning(1956)
Status: Released
Date: 1956-05-16
60%
29 Votes
Time: 1h 32m
THE BUGLE BLAST that echoed thru history!
Overview:
After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Edmund Grainger Productions
Movie: Great Day in the Morning
Top 10 Billed Cast
Robert Stack
Owen Pentecost
Virginia Mayo
Ann Merry Alaine
Ruth Roman
Boston Grant
Alex Nicol
Captain Stephen Kirby
Raymond Burr
Jumbo Means
Leo Gordon
Zeff Masterson
Regis Toomey
Father Murphy
Carleton Young
Col. Gibson
Kermit Maynard
Southern Sympathizer (uncredited)
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After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.
Release Date
1956-05-16
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5.983
Rating:
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THE BUGLE BLAST that echoed thru history!
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