
Rio Bravo(1959)
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.


“"Take Your Choice...Either I Speak...Or My Pistols Do!"”
An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western town during the Reconstruction.

Joel McCrea
Josiah Doziah Gray

Ellen Drew
Harriet Gray

Dean Stockwell
John Kenyon

Alan Hale
Jed Isbell

Lewis Stone
Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr.

James Mitchell
Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Jr.

Amanda Blake
Faith Radmore Samuels

Juano Hernández
Uncle Famous Prill

Charles Kemper
Prof. Sam Houston Jones

Connie Gilchrist
Sarah Isbell
Stars in My Crown is a drama, western film released in 1950 exploring themes of small town, based on novel or book, narration, pastor, contagion spread, last will and testament. Directed by Jacques Tourneur, it stars Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell. An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western town during the Reconstruction.
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