Summary
Adventure drama starring James Stewart, Joanne Dru and Dan Duryea. Two old wartime buddies go into business drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, but they make waves with local fishermen who feel their livelihoods are being put at risk.
Adventure drama starring James Stewart, Joanne Dru and Dan Duryea. Two old wartime buddies go into business drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, but they make waves with local fishermen who feel their livelihoods are being put at risk.
In this disappointing Universal adventure, James Stewart and Dan Duryea play business partners who drill for oil off the Louisiana coast and threaten the local shrimp industry. "They wanted a picture with Jimmy Stewart and we concocted one," Stewart said later of this heavily contrived effort that isn't a patch on the great series of westerns he made with the same director, Anthony Mann. It's the sort of movie that's made by numbers: a bit of action, a bit of romance, a bit of capitalist conflict, and when that gets monotonous the weather turns bad.
role | name |
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Steve Martin | James Stewart |
Stella Rigaud | Joanne Dru |
Johnny Gambi | Dan Duryea |
Teche Bossier | Gilbert Roland |
Francesca Rigaud | Marcia Henderson |
Phillipe Bayard | Robert Monet |
Kermit MacDonald | Jay C Flippen |
Dominique Rigaud | Antonio Moreno |
Rawlings | Harry Morgan |
Sheriff Chighizola | Fortunio Bonanova |
Louis Chighizola | Mario Siletti |
Joe Sephalu | Antonio Filauri |
role | name |
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Director | Anthony Mann |