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Tall Man Riding (1955)

Tall Man Riding poster
Directed by
Lesley Selander
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 23m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A cowboy returns to town to get revenge on a wealthy ranch owner who once whipped him and drove away his lover. He confronts the man and tries to win back the woman who is now the rancher's daughter.

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What happens

Tall Man Riding is a 1955 American Western Warnercolor film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, and Peggie Castle. Based on the novel Tall Man Riding, by Norman A. Fox, the film is about a cowboy (Scott) seeking revenge against a ranch owner for publicly whipping him years earlier and for breaking up his relationship with the ranch owner's daughter (Malone). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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