Cattle Empire (1958)
The war of the ranch kings stampedes the West's wildest cattle empire
After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree, a trail boss is hired by the same town's leading citizen to drive their cattle to Fort Clemson. Complicating matters, a rival cattle baron also hires the cattle driver to lead his herd.
- Date of release
- 1958-04-01
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (19)
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- Charles Marquis Warren
Casting
- Joel McCrea — John Cord
- Gloria Talbott — Sandy Jeffrey
- Don Haggerty — Ralph Hamilton
- Phyllis Coates — Janice Hamilton
- Bing Russell — Douglas Hamilton
- Richard Shannon — Garth
- Paul Brinegar — Tom Jefferson Jeffrey
- Charles H. Gray — Tom Powis (as Charles Gray)
- Art Felix — Vaquero (uncredited)
- Ted Smile — Garth Cowhand (uncredited)
- Howard Culver — Preacher (uncredited)
- Steve Raines — Paul Corbo (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Cattle Empire is a 1958 American Western film directed by Charles Marquis Warren, starring Joel McCrea. The film was shot in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope. 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.
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