The Proud Ones (1956)

A MAN OF FIERCE PRIDE...and six-guns to match!

• Western

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.

Rating

6.5 / 10 (38 votes)

Release date

May 15, 1956

Runtime

1h 34m

Language

English

Director

Robert D. Webb

Status

Released