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Synopsis: A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to avenge his fiancé's death when she is killed during a robbery. His revenge leads him to Chuck-a-luck, Altar Keane's ranch set up to hide criminals, and he finds more than he bargains for.
Genre: Western
Director(s): Fritz Lang
Production: Fidelity Pictures
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
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Year:
1952
89 min
150 Views


The $300 is yours.

Sheriff, did you ever hear of

Chuck-A-Luck? A saloon? A password?

No, I never did. Here's your gun.

The reward - it'll be a few days.

Give it to the barber.

- That's sure kind of you.

You did our job. The least I can do

is buy you a drink.

- Wait a minute.

Did any of you ever hear of

someone called Altar Crane?

Altar Crane.

- It seems to me like I heard

of a name like that.

Or Altar Keane?

- Yeah, I remember.

If it's the person I'm thinking of,

the name is Keane, not Crane.

Altar Keane, yeah!

- What are you laughing at?

That name takes me back a long time,

when I was mining ore in a boom town.

Well, one night,

it was a horse race,

only I was one of the horses

and Altar Keane was my jockey.

One, two, three!

Come on, come on!

You can make it!

Get up, get up!

That's the only Altar Keane I know!

They only made one like her.

- What happened to her?

I never saw her after that.

- I've got to find her. Where would I look?

I heard she went to Virginia City.

Try some of the saloons.

She moved there with a girl

named Dolly, a good friend of hers.

I knew her well.

When I met Altar, she'd just come

from the Eastern Seaboard.

She was a singer, you know.

She sang only

in the most elegant places.

Loved horses.

Always had a pair of white horses.

And the men would all uncover

as she drove by.

The women?

The women would have been happy

for lightning to hit her.

Let me tell you the kind of girl

Altar was. Lots of men.

Sure, that's her privilege.

She shut the door on a cattle baron

if she had fancy for a cowpuncher.

Yes, she was a glory girl

in those days.

Last I heard, she was in Tascosa

at Baldy Gunder's place.

The only thing you'll find here,

young man, is a shade of her.

She left here seven years ago.

It was just after the night

she met Frenchy Fairmont.

Faster on the draw

than a Mexican jack rabbit.

I don't swear it's true. I wasn't

here. But here's how they tell it.

The story was that Mr Gunder didn't

like the way she treated a patron.

Or Altar didn't like the way

the patron treated her!

# How could she leave her baby?

# How could she leave

her bed and board

# And elope with Gypsy Davey?

# Last night she slept

in a goose-feather bed

# At home with her lord and her baby

# Tonight she sleeps...

Altar, you don't smile enough.

- I'm sick of smiling.

I pay you to entertain people,

not to kick them.

- Hands off me, Baldy.

Sure, sure.

Nobody's gonna touch you, angel.

Nobody wants you around, either.

- You're fired.

Deductions for food and costumes,

$27.

Deductions for leaving early

two nights, $10.

You haven't been shilling very good

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Daniel Taradash

Daniel Taradash was born on January 29, 1913 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA as Daniel Irwin Taradash. He was a writer, known for From Here to Eternity (1953), Picnic (1955) and Bell Book and Candle (1958). He was married to Madeleine Forbes. He died on February 22, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA. more…

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