Buckskin (1968)

Director
Michael D. Moore

Main cast
Barry Sullivan; Joan Caulfield; Wendell Corey; Lon Chaney Jr.; John Russell

Genres
Western

Description
A Montana marshal (Barry Sullivan) fights a land baron (Wendell Corey) out to parch homesteaders with a spite dam.


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