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Shoot Out at Big Sag (1962)

Shoot Out at Big Sag poster
Original title
Shootout at Big Sag
Directed by
Roger Kay
Genre
western
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 04m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family tries to settle a land dispute in the American West. The story follows an older patriarch and his relatives as they deal with a rival group.

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What happens

Shoot Out at Big Sag is a 1962 American Western film. It starred Walter Brennan and was made for Brennan's production company. The film was produced by Brennan's son Andy and based on a story by Walter Coburn. It was meant to be a television pilot called Barbed Wire, and would have also starred Leif Erickson and Constance Ford. Shot in 1960, the pilot was to be called Rawhide Halo. The pilot was eventually released as a film. In Mexico the film was titled Los Magnificos McCoy as a tie-in to Walter Brennan's American television series The Real McCoys. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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