The Halliday Brand (1957)
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7% want to see it
(32 ratings)
It's "Freud on the Frontier" time in the tension-filled western The Halliday Brand. Ward Bond plays Big Dan, the despotic head of the Halliday clan, while Joseph Cotten and Betsy Blair costar as Halliday's offspring Daniel and Martha. Intensely anti-Indian, Big Dan encourages a mob… More It's "Freud on the Frontier" time in the tension-filled western The Halliday Brand. Ward Bond plays Big Dan, the despotic head of the Halliday clan, while Joseph Cotten and Betsy Blair costar as Halliday's offspring Daniel and Martha. Intensely anti-Indian, Big Dan encourages a mob to lynch Jivaro (Christopher Dark), Martha's half-breed sweetheart. Despising his father's complicity in Jivaro's death, Daniel breaks off his relationship with the elder Halliday, casting his lot with Jivaro's father (Jay C. Flippen) and sister (Viveca Lindfors). The climactic showdown between father and son is superbly and innovatively handled by director Joseph H. Lewis. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Genres
- Western, Drama
Unrated,
- Studio
- United Artists
Critic Reviews
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Just as [Lewis] made Gun Crazy (1949) into a psychosexual masterpiece, he likewise makes The Halliday Brand into something more than a workaday Western.
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Michael E. Grost, Classic Film and Television
Strange, socially conscious Western.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A superior western that never got the attention it should have.
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Cast
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Joseph Cotten
as Daniel
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Viveca Lindfors
as Aleta
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Betsy Blair
as Martha
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Ward Bond
as Big Dan
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Bill Williams
as Clay
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Jay C. Flippen
as Chad Burris
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Christopher Dark
as Jivaro
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Jeanette Nolan
as Nante
- John Dierkes
- John Halloran
- Michael Hinn
- I. Stanford Jolley
- George Lynn
- Robin Short
- Glenn Strange
- Jay Lawrence
- John Ayres
