Shoot Out at Big Sag

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Shoot Out at Big Sag
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Directed byRoger Kay
Screenplay byRoger Kay
Story byWalter Coburn
Produced byAndy Brennan
Starring Walter Brennan
Chris Robinson
Luana Patten
Les Tremayne
Virginia Gregg
Leif Erickson
Constance Ford
Don O'Kelly
CinematographyLothrop B. Worth
Edited byBud S. Isaacs
Music byJack Cookerly
Bill Loose
Production
company
Brennan Productions
Distributed byParallel Film Distributors Inc.
Release date
  • 1962 (1962)
Running time
64 minutes
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish

Shoot Out at Big Sag is a 1962 American Western film. It starred Walter Brennan and was made for Brennan's production company. [1]

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The film was produced by Brennan's son Andy and based on a story by Walter Coburn. It was meant to be a television pilot called Barbed Wire, and would have also starred Leif Erickson and Constance Ford. Shot in 1960, the pilot was to be called Rawhide Halo. [2]

The pilot was eventually released as a film. In Mexico the film was titled Los Magnificos McCoy as a tie-in to Walter Brennan's American television series The Real McCoys .

Plot

"Preacher" Hawker is the pawn of his bossy wife Sarah Treadway Hawker, who wants to start a range war with their neighbor Sam Barbee. It doesn't help that Preacher's daughter Hannah and Barbee's son Lee have fallen in love. Preacher hires Chan Bartholomew, a lowlife saloon owner, to ensure that the outcome is in the Hawker family's favor.

Cast

References

  1. Sorich, Jake (April 14, 2013). "Highwood Sunday Drive: Scenic views, camping and fishing". Great Falls Tribune. ProQuest   1326600562.
  2. Hopper, Hedda (May 21, 1960). "Looking at Hollywood: Grant Offers to Do a Spot in Dope Film". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 18. ProQuest   182505941.