
After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.
Cast

Robert Stack
Owen Pentecost

Virginia Mayo
Ann Merry Alaine

Ruth Roman
Boston Grant

Alex Nicol
Captain Stephen Kirby

Raymond Burr
Jumbo Means

Leo Gordon
Zeff Masterson

Regis Toomey
Father Murphy

Carleton Young
Col. Gibson
Donald MacDonald
Gary John Lawford

Kermit Maynard
Southern Sympathizer (uncredited)
Paul McGuire
Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

Burt Mustin
Doctor (uncredited)

Cap Somers
Miner (uncredited)

Dan White
Rogers (uncredited)

Lane Chandler
Northern Loyalist (uncredited)

Ben Corbett
Townsman (uncredited)
Duke Fishman
Miner (uncredited)
Al Haskell
Barfly (uncredited)

Jack Kenny
Barfly (uncredited)

Mitchell Kowall
Mower - Norther Loyalist (uncredited)

Pierce Lyden
Cowboy (uncredited)

Frank Mills
Barfly (uncredited)

Dennis Moore
Townsman (uncredited)

William Phipps
Ralston (uncredited)
Robert Robinson
Bartender (uncredited)

Buddy Roosevelt
Barfly (uncredited)

Syd Saylor
Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)

Sailor Vincent
Barfly (uncredited)

George D. Wallace
Jack Lawford (uncredited)

Peter Whitney
Phil the Cannibal (uncredited)
Crew

Jacques Tourneur
Director
Lesser Samuels
Screenplay
Robert Hardy Andrews
Novel
Harry Marker
Editor
William E. Snyder
Director of Photography
James E. Casey
Assistant Director
Cliff P. Broughton
Production Supervisor
Edmund Grainger
Producer
Gwen Wakeling
Costume Design
Annabell Levy
Hairstylist
Larry Butterworth
Makeup Artist
John C. Grubb
Sound
Terry Kellum
Sound

Leith Stevens
Original Music Composer

C. Bakaleinikoff
Music Director
John Burch
Unit Production Manager
Jack Okey
Art Direction
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