The Big Land

The Big Land (1957)

Oh, you boys can sleep as late as you like in the morning... so long as you get up for breakfast. Five o'clock.

Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.

Date of release
1957-03-01
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Romance, Western
Director
Gordon Douglas

Casting

Interesting facts

The Big Land is a 1957 American Western film in Warnercolor directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien.

Production

The film was based on the novel Buffalo Grass, which was published in 1955. Alan Ladd's Jaguar Productions bought film rights prior to publication for a reported $100,000. The movie was meant to be the first in a revised four-year production deal between Jaguar Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures. Frank Gruber himself was hired to write the script and Eleanor Parker and Robert Ryan were discussed as possible co-stars to Ladd.

The movie was shot near Sonora, California, a location not far from Yosemite National Park over four weeks in June 1956. The unit then moved to the Warner Bros backlot. Four different sets for the township were created – to show the town being built, after it had been burnt, to film the burning sequence, and to show the town being completed.

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