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The Long Rope (1961)

The Long Rope poster
Directed by
William Witney
Genre
western
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 01m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man arrives in a small western town to serve as judge. He faces resistance from a powerful local family who run the town outside the law.

tenseslow-burndustygrittylawlessdeterminedstraightforwardbleak

What happens

The Long Rope is a 1961 American Associated Producers Inc Western film directed by William Witney and written by Robert Hamner. The film stars Hugh Marlowe, Alan Hale, Jr., Robert J. Wilke, Chris Robinson, William Kerwin and Jeff Morris. The film was released in February 1961, by 20th Century Fox. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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