Shoot Out at Big Sag

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Shoot Out at Big Sag
Bigsag.jpg
Directed byRoger Kay
Based onstory by Walter Coburn
Produced byAndy Brennan
Starring Walter Brennan
Leif Erickson
Luana Patten
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 Hannah, who wants to start a range war with their neighbor Sam Barbee. It doesn’t help that "Preacher"s' daughter and Barbee’s son 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

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