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Great Day in the Morning( 1956)

TV-MAWestern
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THE BUGLE BLAST that echoed thru history!

Overview

After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Robert Stack

      Owen Pentecost

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      Virginia Mayo

      Ann Merry Alaine

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      Ruth Roman

      Boston Grant

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      Alex Nicol

      Captain Stephen Kirby

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      Raymond Burr

      Jumbo Means

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      Leo Gordon

      Zeff Masterson

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      Regis Toomey

      Father Murphy

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      Carleton Young

      Col. Gibson

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      Donald MacDonald

      Gary John Lawford

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      Kermit Maynard

      Southern Sympathizer (uncredited)

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      Paul McGuire

      Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

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      Burt Mustin

      Doctor (uncredited)

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      Cap Somers

      Miner (uncredited)

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      Dan White

      Rogers (uncredited)

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      Lane Chandler

      Northern Loyalist (uncredited)

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      Ben Corbett

      Townsman (uncredited)

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      Duke Fishman

      Miner (uncredited)

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      Al Haskell

      Barfly (uncredited)

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      Jack Kenny

      Barfly (uncredited)

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      Mitchell Kowall

      Mower - Norther Loyalist (uncredited)

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      Pierce Lyden

      Cowboy (uncredited)

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      Frank Mills

      Barfly (uncredited)

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      Dennis Moore

      Townsman (uncredited)

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      William Phipps

      Ralston (uncredited)

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      Robert Robinson

      Bartender (uncredited)

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      Buddy Roosevelt

      Barfly (uncredited)

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      Syd Saylor

      Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)

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      Sailor Vincent

      Barfly (uncredited)

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      George D. Wallace

      Jack Lawford (uncredited)

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      Peter Whitney

      Phil the Cannibal (uncredited)

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    A review by John Chard

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    Written by John Chard on Sat Aug 26 2017
    Even big men cry sometimes. Great Day in the Morning is directed by Jacques Tourneur and written by Lesser Samuels. It stars Robert Stack, Virginia Mayo, Raymond Burr, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Leo Gordon and Regis Toomey. Music is by Leith Stevens and cinematography by William E. Snyder. A Technicolor/Superscope production, story is set in Colorado Territory 1861, a mining town just as The Civil War is to break out. North and South divisions, lustful passions and the hunger for power and gold, all reside here... This would turn out to be the great Jacques Tourneur's last Western offerin...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • hotel
    • gunslinger
    • card game
    • love triangle
    • denver, colorado
    • gun battle
    • gold prospector
    • saloon girl
    • gunfighter
    • quick draw
    • american civil war
    • knife murder
    • gold claim
    • southern gambler
    • gold mining
    • eve of war
    • union soldiers
    • gun death
    • eve of us civil war
    • confederate gold
    • eve of american civil war
    • divided loyalties
    • orphan boy