After the Civil War, five Confederates find trouble in a Yankee town when one of them accidentally shoots and kills a young local boy.After the Civil War, five Confederates find trouble in a Yankee town when one of them accidentally shoots and kills a young local boy.After the Civil War, five Confederates find trouble in a Yankee town when one of them accidentally shoots and kills a young local boy.
Sterling Franck
- Cain Mason
- (as Cain Mason)
Fred Aldrich
- Blacksmith
- (uncredited)
John Barton
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Buck Bucko
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Cecil Combs
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Fritz Ford
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaA few days before Rebel In Town was released, Ruth Roman survived the sinking of the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. (July 25, 1956).
- Quotes
Wesley Mason: [while being whipped] No more, Pa! Mercy, Pa!
- SoundtracksRebel in Town
(theme song)
Music by Les Baxter
Words by Lenny Adelson
Performed by The Crew Cuts and men's/women's chorus
Played during the opening credits and sporadically throughout the film
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A minor Greek tragedy transposed to frontier America
Most Westerns use one of a limited number of standard plots, but it's hard to categorize this movie. Its setting -- a small frontier town -- merely serves as a background for a drama of revenge and reconciliation which could easily be recast as a Greek tragedy. Its central question certainly rises above the usual concerns of Westerns: can the sacrifice of one man's guilty son make up for the death of another man's innocent son?
Or, as J. Carroll Naish puts it in the last scene: "What the sons of some men do to the sons of others ... there's a tragedy of the world."
John Payne, (sporting a mustache), gets top billing here but his character is absent from many of the movie's key scenes. Ben Cooper actually plays the main character as his feelings of guilt over the death of an innocent boy propels most of the plot. Ruth Roman seems miscast as a frontier wife and mother. The less said about the two juvenile performers, (Bobby Clark and Mimi Gibson), the better.
There's a vivid flogging scene in the movie's second half in which J. Carroll Naish takes a whip to the back of his son, John Smith, who's tied shirtless to a tree. This may be the American cinema's only major whipping in which a father strikes his own son.
Or, as J. Carroll Naish puts it in the last scene: "What the sons of some men do to the sons of others ... there's a tragedy of the world."
John Payne, (sporting a mustache), gets top billing here but his character is absent from many of the movie's key scenes. Ben Cooper actually plays the main character as his feelings of guilt over the death of an innocent boy propels most of the plot. Ruth Roman seems miscast as a frontier wife and mother. The less said about the two juvenile performers, (Bobby Clark and Mimi Gibson), the better.
There's a vivid flogging scene in the movie's second half in which J. Carroll Naish takes a whip to the back of his son, John Smith, who's tied shirtless to a tree. This may be the American cinema's only major whipping in which a father strikes his own son.
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- dinky-4
- Feb 9, 2003
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- Also known as
- Der Rebell von Arizona
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- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
- 1.37 : 1
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