Reprisal!

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Reprisal! (1956)

NR 11/02/1956 (US) Western 1h 14m

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THE NIGHT THE TOWN WENT HUNTING...WITH A ROPE!

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New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. There is soon trouble between Frank and the Shipleys who are using Frank's land to graze their cattle. When the brother of one of the Indian victims kills a Shipley, Frank is accused and put in jail. The Shipleys then organize a lynch mob and head for the jail.

David P. Harmon

Screenplay, Story
George Sherman

Director
Arthur Gordon

Novel
David Dortort

Screenplay
Raphael Hayes

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Guy Madison

Frank Madden
Felicia Farr

Catherine Cantrell
Kathryn Grant

Taini
Michael Pate

Bert Shipley
Edward Platt

Neil Shipley
Otto Hulett

Sheriff Jim Dixon
Frank De Kova

Charlie Washackle
Wayne Mallory

Tom Shipley
Robert Burton

Jeb Cantrell
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A review by John Chard

80%

Written by John Chard on February 11, 2014

Never be ashamed of your blood.

Reprisal! Is directed by George Sherman and written by David P. Harmon, Raphael Hayes and David Dortort. It stars Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant, Michael Pate, Edward Platt, Otto Hulett, Wayne Mallory and Frank De Kova. Music is by Mischa Bakaleinikof and Technicolor cinematography by Henry Freulich.

Frank Madden (Madison) is half white, half Indian, in order to be allowed to own his own land in the County of Kendall, Texas, he keeps his half-breed status a secret. Acquiring a ranch and land, Madden quickly falls foul of the Shipley bro... read the rest.

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