/2QSoRg11bRENT19SIcpISJaIWrd.jpg
Western

The Proud Ones

- A MAN OF FIERCE PRIDE...and six-guns to match!

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.

Release Date : 1956-05-15

Language :EnglishSpanish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : 20th Century Fox

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Robert Ryan

Character Name : Marshal Cass Silver

Original Name : Robert Ryan

Gender : Male

Virginia Mayo

Character Name : Sally

Original Name : Virginia Mayo

Gender : Female

Jeffrey Hunter

Character Name : Thad Anderson

Original Name : Jeffrey Hunter

Gender : Male

Robert Middleton

Character Name : Honest John Barrett

Original Name : Robert Middleton

Gender : Male

Walter Brennan

Character Name : Jake

Original Name : Walter Brennan

Gender : Male

Arthur O'Connell

Character Name : Jim Dexter

Original Name : Arthur O'Connell

Gender : Male

Rodolfo Acosta

Character Name : Chico

Original Name : Rodolfo Acosta

Gender : Male

Ken Clark

Character Name : Pike

Original Name : Ken Clark

Gender : Male

George Mathews

Character Name : Dillon

Original Name : George Mathews

Gender : Male

Fay Roope

Character Name : Markham

Original Name : Fay Roope

Gender : Male

Edward Platt

Character Name : Dr. Barlow

Original Name : Edward Platt

Gender : Male

Whit Bissell

Character Name : Mr. Sam Bolton

Original Name : Whit Bissell

Gender : Male

Robert Adler

Character Name : Poker Player (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert Adler

Gender : Male

Walter Bacon

Character Name : Townsman (uncredited)

Original Name : Walter Bacon

Gender : Male

Don Brodie

Character Name : Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Original Name : Don Brodie

Gender : Male

Paul E. Burns

Character Name : Billy Smith (uncredited)

Original Name : Paul E. Burns

Gender : Male

Harry Carter

Character Name : Houseman (uncredited)

Original Name : Harry Carter

Gender : Male

Noble 'Kid' Chissell

Character Name : Townsman (uncredited)

Original Name : Noble 'Kid' Chissell

Gender : Male

Jackie Coogan

Character Name : Man on Make (uncredited)

Original Name : Jackie Coogan

Gender : Male

Steve Darrell

Character Name : George, trail boss (uncredited)

Original Name : Steve Darrell

Gender : Male

Richard Deacon

Character Name : Barber (uncredited)

Original Name : Richard Deacon

Gender : Male

William Fawcett

Character Name : Driver (uncredited)

Original Name : William Fawcett

Gender : Male

Frank Gerstle

Character Name : Tim (uncredited)

Original Name : Frank Gerstle

Gender : Male

Michael Jeffers

Character Name : Townsman (uncredited)

Original Name : Michael Jeffers

Gender : Male

Dick Johnstone

Character Name : Saloon Dealer (uncredited)

Original Name : Dick Johnstone

Gender : Male

I. Stanford Jolley

Character Name : Crooked Card-Player (uncredited)

Original Name : I. Stanford Jolley

Gender : Male

Joe Phillips

Character Name : Townsman (uncredited)

Original Name : Joe Phillips

Gender : Male

Joe Ploski

Character Name : Barfly (uncredited)

Original Name : Joe Ploski

Gender : Male

Bob Reeves

Character Name : Townsman (uncredited)

Original Name : Bob Reeves

Gender : Male

Ray Spiker

Character Name : Townsman (uncredited)

Original Name : Ray Spiker

Gender : Male

Charles Tannen

Character Name : 2nd Foreman (uncredited)

Original Name : Charles Tannen

Gender : Male

Ken Terrell

Character Name : The Weasel (uncredited)

Original Name : Ken Terrell

Gender : Male

Jack Tornek

Character Name : Townsman (uncredited)

Original Name : Jack Tornek

Gender : Male

Reviews

J

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

A thriving town sells its soul. The Proud Ones is directed by Robert D. Webb and adapted to screenplay by Edmund H. North and Joseph Petracca from the Verne Athanas novel. It stars Robert Ryan, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Mayo, Robert Middleton, Walter Brennan, Arthur O'Connell, Ken Clark and Rodolfo Acosta. A De Luxe Color/Cinemascope production, with music by Lionel Newman and cinematography by Lucien Ballard. Flat Rock, Kansas, and the coming of the railroad and the trail herds has the town eagerly planning for prosperity. Cass Silver (Ryan), the no nonsense marshal of Flat Rock is expecting trouble, and he gets it… Splendidly mounted Oater that features a strong cast and colourful Scope photography by one of the masters of his craft. The story is hardly breaking new ground, the narrative clearly harks to more well known genre pieces of the 50s, though the oedipal theme that runs throughout adds an extra dimension. In trying to steer the pic away from formulaic over drive, the makers insert an affliction on our tough old boy marshal, namely he is suffering bouts of dizziness and blindness, which naturally couldn't have arrived at a more inopportune moment since Cass Silver has pretty much got to tackle the town's bad eggs on his own. Or has he? Enter Hunter's angry young man, gunning for Cass because he killed his outlaw father, allegedly in cold blood. And this is where we get oedipal from, and it adds some meat to the formula skeleton. This is very good Western film making, plenty of machismo fuelled set-pieces, plenty of brooding and yearning, and it all builds to a ripper of a climax. There's few surprises in store, and Mayo and Brennan are sadly wasted, but this deserves to be better known and more importantly, it deserves to be thought of better than merely being a High Noon clone. Besides which, Robert Ryan is ace, no matter his age he always delivers grace and grizzle in equal measure. 7.5/10