Skrupellos
(1956)
Regisseur:
Jacques TourneurSchauspieler:
Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr, Leo Gordon, Regis Toomey, Carleton Young, Donald MacDonald, Kermit Maynard, Paul McGuire, Burt Mustin, Cap Somers, Dan White, Lane Chandler, Ben CorbettDenver vor und zu Beginn des Bürgerkriegs, als sich die Einwohnerschaft zwischen Anhängern der Südstaatler und der Yankees spaltet: Ein Geschäftemacher aus dem Süden adoptiert den kleinen Sohn eines Goldgräbers, den er selbst in Notwehr erschossen hat. Ein ernsthafter Western, der die starren Genre-Grenzen durchbricht.
After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women - one who came with the hotel, and one newly arrived from the East to open a dress shop - he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a small minority in a strongly Unionist town.
After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women - one who came with the hotel, and one newly arrived from the East to open a dress shop - he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a small minority in a strongly Unionist town.
