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Great Day in the Morning

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Great Day in the Morning
Directed byJacques Tourneur
Screenplay byLesser Samuels
Based onGreat Day in the Morning
1950 novel
by Robert Hardy Andrews
Produced byEdmund Grainger
StarringVirginia Mayo
Robert Stack
Ruth Roman
CinematographyWilliam E. Snyder
Edited byHarry Marker
Music byLeith Stevens
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release dates
  • May 16, 1956 (1956-05-16) (Premiere-Denver, CO)[1]
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Great Day in the Morning is a 1956 American Technicolor Superscope western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, and Ruth Roman.[2][3] It was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The story is set in 1860s Denver.

Plot

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In 1861, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, Owen Pentecost is a man from North Carolina who comes west to Denver in the Colorado Territory on a whim. He encounters Ann Merry Alaine, who is going there to open a dress shop.

In a Denver hotel saloon, Owen wins a poker game with the owner, Jumbo Means, who bet his estate on the last hand. Along with the hotel comes Boston Grant, who works there.

Both women begin to fall for Owen. He has money on his mind, specifically the gold of the town's Confederates, which turns out to be what brought him here. But the predominantly Union town wants the gold, and with the Civil War approaching, the town is split. Owen leads the Southerners in an escape attempt with the gold.

Cast

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Great Day in the Morning: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  2. ^ Variety film review; May 16, 1956, page 18.
  3. ^ Harrison's Reports film review; May 19, 1956, page 80.
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