“A woman's bullet kills as quick as a man's!”
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.
Robert Mitchum
Jim Garry
Barbara Bel Geddes
Amy Lufton
Robert Preston
Tate Riling
Walter Brennan
Kris Barden
Phyllis Thaxter
Carol Lufton
Frank Faylen
Jake Pindalest
Tom Tully
John Lufton
Charles McGraw
Milo Sweet
Clifton Young
Joe Shotten
Tom Tyler
Frank Reardon
Blood on the Moon is a western, romance film released in 1948 exploring themes of daughter, cattle drive, homesteader, drifter, cattle baron, herd. Directed by Robert Wise, it stars Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston. Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.
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