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Movie Description
A cowboy yarn with all the usual elements of an innocent man facing mob justice, a powerful cattle baron willing to take the law into his own hands and spectacular High Sierra vistas - but interesting as Douglas's first Western outing.
Synopsis
In "Along the Great Divide," Kirk Douglas made his debut in a western -- a genre that subsequently brought him much fame.
Douglas plays Len Merrick, a U.S. marshal who rescues Pop Keith from a lynching. The old cattle rustler was accused of murdering the eldest son of cattle baron Ed Roden, who then decided to take the law into his own hands.
When Merrick brings the old man into custody -- and safely away from Roden's lynch mob -- he finds that he has an entire posse of his trail. Then the marshal discovers a surprising new suspect in the killing... Roden's other son.
Film Notes
"Along the Great Divide" was Kirk Douglas's first western.
Additional credit: Leslie G. Hewitt (sound).
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