Great Day in the Morning

1956 PG-13 1h 32m

6.0 / 10 29

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6.0/10

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After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.

Director Jacques Tourneur

Writers

Robert Hardy Andrews Lesser Samuels

Stars

Robert Stack Virginia Mayo Ruth Roman

Captain Stephen Kirby

Southern Sympathizer (uncredited)

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Paul McGuire

Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

Northern Loyalist (uncredited)

Ben Corbett

Townsman (uncredited)

Mower - Norther Loyalist (uncredited)

Townsman (uncredited)

Bartender (uncredited)

Buddy Roosevelt

Barfly (uncredited)

Syd Saylor

Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)

Sailor Vincent

Barfly (uncredited)

George D. Wallace

Jack Lawford (uncredited)

Peter Whitney

Phil the Cannibal (uncredited)

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John Chard 26 Aug 2017

7/10

Even big men cry sometimes. Great Day in the Morning is directed by Jacques Tourneur and written by Lesser Samuels. It stars Robert Stack, Virginia Mayo, Raymond Burr, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Leo Gordon and Regis Toomey. Music is by Leith Stevens and cinematography by William E. Snyder. A Technicolor/Superscope production, story is set in Colorado Territory 1861, a mining town just as The Ci...