Great Day in the Morning (1956)

Director
Jacques Tourneur

Main cast
Virginia Mayo; Robert Stack; Ruth Roman; Alex Nicol; Raymond Burr

Genres
Western

Description
After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women - one who came with the hotel, and one newly arrived from the East to open a dress shop - he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a small minority in a strongly Unionist town.


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