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Four Faces West (1948)

Four Faces West poster
Directed by
Alfred Edward Green
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 29m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A weary cowboy robs a bank to pay off a debt. He is pursued by a sheriff and finds refuge on a ranch owned by a kind woman.

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What happens

Four Faces West is a 1948 American Western film starring Joel McCrea, his real-life wife Frances Dee, and Charles Bickford. It is based on the novel Pasó por aquí by Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Its plot concerns a down-on-his-luck cowboy who robs a bank. For its genre the film is unusual in that not a single shot is ever fired. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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