Great Day in the Morning

Great Day in the Morning

92 mins | Western | May 16, 1956

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 small minority in a strongly Unionist town.

Great Day in the Morning

92 mins | Western | May 16, 1956

Great Day in the Morning
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 small minority in a strongly Unionist town.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers RKO Radio Pictures, Edmund Grainger Productions
Original title Great Day in the Morning
Directors James E. Casey, Jacques Tourneur
Writers Robert Hardy Andrews, Lesser Samuels

Cast

Virginia Mayo

as Ann Merry Alaine

Robert Stack

as Owen Pentecost

Ruth Roman

as Boston Grant

Alex Nicol

as Captain Stephen Kirby

Raymond Burr

as Jumbo Means

Leo Gordon

as Zeff Masterson

Regis Toomey

as Father Murphy

Carleton Young

as Col. Gibson

Donald MacDonald

as Gary John Lawford

Kermit Maynard

as Southern Sympathizer (uncredited)

Paul McGuire

as Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

Burt Mustin

as Doctor (uncredited)

Cap Somers

as Miner (uncredited)

Dan White

as Rogers (uncredited)

Lane Chandler

as Northern Loyalist (uncredited)

Ben Corbett

as Townsman (uncredited)

Duke Fishman

as Miner (uncredited)

Al Haskell

as Barfly (uncredited)

Jack Kenny

as Barfly (uncredited)

Mitchell Kowall

as Mower - Norther Loyalist (uncredited)

Pierce Lyden

as Cowboy (uncredited)

Frank Mills

as Barfly (uncredited)

Dennis Moore

as Townsman (uncredited)

William Phipps

as Ralston (uncredited)

Robert Robinson

as Bartender (uncredited)

Buddy Roosevelt

as Barfly (uncredited)

Syd Saylor

as Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)

Sailor Vincent

as Barfly (uncredited)

George Wallace

as Jack Lawford (uncredited)

Peter Whitney

as Phil the Cannibal (uncredited)