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Stranger on Horseback
Stranger on Horseback is a 1955 American Anscocolor Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Joel McCrea. The screenplay is based on a story by Louis L'Amour.
Plot.
Rick Thorne, a circuit judge, rides into Bannerman and discovers everything in town is controlled by rich rancher Josiah Bannerman and his kin. He meets sheriff Nat Bell and district attorney Buck Streeter and asks why Bannerman's arrogant son, Tom, got away with killing a man without an arrest or trial.
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Pleasure" (1930) (playwright and dialogue)
- "Tomorrow's Children" (1934) (director and screenwriter)
- "The People's Enemy" (1935) (director)
- "The Unwelcome Stranger" (1935) (co-screenwriter)
- "The Devil on Horseback" (1936) (director)
- "Captain Calamity" (1936) (screenwriter)
- "Yellow Cargo" (1936) (director and screenwriter, also wrote original story)