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Man Without a Star ()

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Sharpshooting drifter Dempsey Rae comes back to Wyoming to work for beautiful rancher Reed Bowman. But Reed's plan to fence in her land's wide open spaces angers other ranchers and soon embroils Dempsey in a bloody range war.
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Dempsey Rae
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Reed Bowman
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Idonee
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Jeff Jimson
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Steve Miles
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Strap Davis
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Tess Cassidy
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Moccasin Mary
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Tom Cassidy (as Eddy C. Waller)
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Latigo
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Tom Carter (as George Wallace)
Frank Chase ...
Little Waco
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Mark Toliver
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Sheriff Olson
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Cookie (as Wm. "Bill" Phillips)
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Carl Andre ...
Texas Gang Member (uncredited)
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Fancy Joe Toole (uncredited)
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Ranch Hand (uncredited)
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Brick Gooder (uncredited)
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Tramp (uncredited)
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Knife Murderer (uncredited)
Mark Hanna ...
Concho Perez (uncredited)
Jim Hayward ...
Duckbill - Bartender (uncredited)
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Mogollon (uncredited)
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Jessup (uncredited)
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Barfly (uncredited)
Walter Lawrence ...
Barfly (uncredited)
Casey MacGregor ...
Hammer - Blacksmith (uncredited)
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Tramp (uncredited)
Ewing Mitchell ...
Ben Johnson (uncredited)
Anton Northpole ...
Barfly (uncredited)
Milicent Patrick ...
Boxcar Alice (uncredited)
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Tramp (uncredited)
Bud Rae ...
Baldy Lewis (uncredited)
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Brakeman (uncredited)
Cap Somers ...
Barfly (uncredited)
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Tramp (uncredited)
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Barfly (uncredited)

Directed by

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King Vidor

Written by

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Borden Chase ... (screenplay) and
D.D. Beauchamp ... (screenplay)
 
Dee Linford ... (novel)

Produced by

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Aaron Rosenberg ... producer

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Hans J. Salter ... (uncredited)
Herman Stein ... (uncredited)

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Russell Metty ... director of photography

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Virgil W. Vogel ... (as Virgil Vogel)

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William Fritzsche ... color consultant: Technicolor

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Alexander Golitzen
Richard H. Riedel

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John P. Austin ... (set decorations) (as John Austin)
Russell A. Gausman ... (set decorations)

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Joan St. Oegger ... hair stylist
Bud Westmore ... makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Frank Shaw ... assistant director
George Lollier ... assistant director (uncredited)

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Eddie Case ... props

Sound Department

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Leslie I. Carey ... sound
Joe Lapis ... sound

Stunts

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Carl Andre ... stunts (uncredited)
Fred Carson ... stunt double: Richard Boone (uncredited)
Jack N. Young ... stunt double Kirk Douglas (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Rosemary Odell ... costumes

Music Department

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Joseph Gershenson ... music supervisor
Henry Mancini ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Ethmer Roten ... musician: flute (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Clint Eastwood ... voice dubbing (uncredited)
Jane Howard ... voice dubbing (uncredited)
David Janssen ... voice dubbing (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East. She needs a tough new top hand and uses all her means of persuasion to get Rae to take the job. But he doesn't like the way the other settlers are getting treated and starts to side with them, despite their introduction of the barbed wire he loathes. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

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Taglines His home was his saddle, his only friend a six-gun and his country the wild free range! See more »
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Also Known As
  • L'homme qui n'a pas d'étoile (France)
  • Mit stahlharter Faust (Germany)
  • Un home sense estrella (Spain, Catalan title)
  • La pradera sin ley (Spain)
  • Człowiek bez gwiazdy (Poland)
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  • 89 min
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Trivia The horse that Kirk Douglas is riding in the film is a movie star in his own right. The horse's name is "Pie" and appears in many Western movies, mostly those with the actor Jimmy Stewart. Besides Stewart and Douglas, he was ridden by Glenn Ford and Audie Murphy. Pie appeared in 17 Westerns. Jimmy Stewart loved the horse and said he was "...one of the best co-stars I ever worked with." Pie can be seen in, amongst others, The Far Country (1954), Winchester '73 (1950), and Bend of the River (1952). Pie lived until 1970 and was buried on Jimmy Stewart's ranch in California. See more »
Goofs The name of the ranch is the Triangle, but the branding iron is in the shape of a circle. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Kirk Douglas (1971). See more »
Soundtracks Man Without A Star See more »
Quotes [Dempsey has just given Jeff Jimson a quick-draw and gun-twirling lesson]
Jeff Jimson: Aw, Demps, when do I learn THAT?!
Dempsey Rae: You don't. That's all a lotta hogwash, kid. Look, know this: twirlin' a gun never saved a man's life. There's only one thing you gotta learn. (Pulls his gun and fires) Get it out fast! And then...put it...away...slow. Get what I mean, kid?
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