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1956 · 92 mins · English
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Directed by
Jacques Tourneur
Starring
Donald MacDonald, Raymond Burr, Virginia Mayo, Ben Corbett, William Phipps, Jack Kenny

After a card game, Southern gambler Owen Pentecost unexpectedly becomes the owner of a Denver hotel. He becomes involved with two women just as the nation erupts into Civil War, and in a town dominated by Unionist sentiment he must choose where his loyalties lie, becoming a Confederate minority in a strongly pro‑Union community.

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