Cattle Empire

Cattle Empire is a 1958 Western DeLuxe Color movie in CinemaScope directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Joel McCrea. The film also features Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates and Bing Russell and serves as something of a forerunner for director Warren's subsequent television series Rawhide starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood, which used the picture's writer Endre Bohem as well as some of its supporting cast (Paul Brinegar, Steve Raines, Rocky Shahan and Charles H. Gray).

Plot

John Cord (Joel McCrea) a brave cowboy/ex-con hits the dusty trail as the leader of a major cattle drive. He is offered the job by the very townspeople his gang terrorized a few years before. They are also the same people who put him in the slammer, and even though he accepts the task, he secretly plots his revenge. He gets it by proving himself courageous and honest.^[1]

Cast

• Joel McCrea as John Cord
• Gloria Talbott as Sandy Jeffrey
• Don Haggerty as Ralph Hamilton
• Phyllis Coates as Janice Hamilton
• Bing Russell as Douglas Hamilton
• Richard Shannon as Garth
• Paul Brinegar as Tom Jefferson Jeffrey
• Charles H. Gray as Tom Powis (billed as Charles Gray)
• Hal K. Dawson as George Washington Jeffrey
• Patrick O'Moore as Rex Cogswell
• Duane Grey as Juan Aruzza
• William McGraw as Jim Whittaker (billed as Bill McGraw)
• Jack Lomas as Sheriff Brewster

References

External links

• Cattle Empire at the Internet Movie Database
• Cattle Empire at the TCM Movie Database
• Cattle Empire at AllMovie
• Cattle Empire at the American Film Institute Catalog