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The Big Land (1957)

The Big Land poster
Directed by
Gordon Douglas
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 19 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man tries to bring a railroad to a struggling town in the post-Civil War West. He faces opposition from a corrupt businessman who wants to keep the area isolated.

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What happens

The Big Land is a 1957 American Western film in Warnercolor directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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