Once Upon a Time in a Western

Jock Mahoney is Jim Trask, an ex-Confederate officer who returns from war feeling guilty and gun shy. And as though he owes a huge debt to an old friend …

A stage arrives in the ghost town of Mesa, carrying Julie Westcott (Lola Albright), a woman on her way to meet her fiance, and a host of other passengers. …

Ben Cooper is Johnny Shattuck, a young man who returns to the Apache Wells area because he fears his father is in trouble. He heard he hasn’t shipped any …

Rory Calhoun is the title character (real name, Cort Garand), a young man who returned from the Civil War to find his father killed and his father’s cattle stolen. …

John Payne is Dan Ballard, and the story unfolds on his wedding day, when a U.S. Marshal named McCarty arrives in the town of Silver Lode with three deputes …

Rock Hudson is Taza, son of Apache chief Cochise, whose dying wish is that his sons continue a peaceful co-existence with the white. Taza takes that to heart; he …

Randolph Scott is Capt. Tom Benson, who was off fetching his fiancee to Fort Lincoln when Custer rode to glory and death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. …

Barbara Stanwyck plays Kit Banion, a former Southerner from Virginia who lost everything in the Civil War, incuding her parents. She headed West, then used all her feminine charms …

Fred MacMurray plays Wes Anderson, a cowpoke “inpatient for money,” in his own words. He’s thrown in jail for moonlighting — stealing cattle by moonlight. But when riders from …

Michael Landon is the title character, one of Mosby’s men at the close of the Civil War. He and two buddies raid a Union stage, killing four men. It’s …