Short Grass (1950)
ROD CAMERON...as the fabulous "Man from Santa Fe" who battled the Southwest's deadliest badmen!
Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now he’s back. And the bad blood stirred up by his return and the violence caused by a cattleman’s grab for all the good grasslands mean Steve must strap on his sidearms again. Rod Cameron -- who became a marquee draw with a pair of espionage serials in the 1940s and went on to establish himself as a popular cowboy star -- makes Steve a hero to reckon with in Short Grass, one of the actor’s 10 films with busy shoot-‘em-up director Lesley Selander. Johnny Mack Brown, a sagebrush stalwart in his own right, plays the marshal who allies with Steve. Adding to the Western pedigree is costar Cathy Downs, who plays the title role in the iconic My Darling Clementine. Buffs will note other familiar faces, including Alan Hale, Jr., well remembered as the skipper who takes a “three-hour tour” to Gilligan’s Island.
- Date of release
- 1950-12-24
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- Lesley Selander
Casting
- Rod Cameron — Steve Llewellyn
- Cathy Downs — Sharon Lynch
- Johnny Mack Brown — Sheriff Ord Keown
- Raymond Walburn — Doctor McKenna
- Alan Hale Jr. — Chris Christofferson
- Morris Ankrum — Hal Fenton
- Jonathan Hale — Charlie Bissel
- Harry Woods — Sam Dreen
- Marlo Dwyer — Jennie Westfall
- Riley Hill — Randee Fenton
- Jeff York — Curley
- Stanley Andrews — Pete Lynch
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- Gunless 2010 · ★ 6.4
- Carry On Cowboy 1965 · ★ 6.3
- The Comancheros 1961 · ★ 6.7
- Return of the Gunfighter 1967 · ★ 6.1
- Go West 1940 · ★ 6.6
- The Last Wagon 1956 · ★ 6.5
- Chisum 1970 · ★ 6.6