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Will Penny ()

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Aging cowboy Will Penny gets a line camp job on a large cattle spread and finds his isolated cabin is already occupied by an abandoned woman traveler and her young son.
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Will Penny
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Catherine Allen
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Preacher Quint
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Blue
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Rafe Quint
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Alex - Flat Iron Ranch Foreman
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Ike Walterstein
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Catron
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Dutchy
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Boetius Sullivan
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Anse Howard
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Jennie
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Dr. Fraker
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Mrs. Fraker
Robert Luster ...
Shem Bodine
Dal Jenkins ...
Sambo
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Romulus Quint
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Foxy
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Bigfoot
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Rufus Quint
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Girl
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Horace Greeley Allen (as Jon Francis)
Stephen Edwards ...
Town Boy

Directed by

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Tom Gries

Written by

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Tom Gries ... (written by)

Produced by

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Fred Engel ... producer
Walter Seltzer ... producer

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David Raksin

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Lucien Ballard ... director of photography

Editing by

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Warren Low

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Jack Wheeler ... assistant editor

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Roland Anderson
Hal Pereira

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Robert R. Benton ... (as Robert Benton)
Ray Moyer

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Charles Blackman ... makeup artist
Nellie Manley ... hair styles supervisor
Hedy Mjorud ... hair stylist (as Hedvig Mjorud)
Wally Westmore ... makeup supervisor

Production Management

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C. Kenneth Deland ... unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Daniel McCauley ... assistant director (as Daniel J. McCauley)

Art Department

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Gene Lauritzen ... construction coordinator (uncredited)

Sound Department

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John R. Carter ... sound recordist (as John Carter)
John Wilkinson ... sound recordist

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Paul K. Lerpae ... special photographic effects

Stunts

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Calvin Brown ... stunts (uncredited)
Joe Canutt ... stunt coordinator (uncredited)
Ross Dollarhide ... stunts (uncredited)
Jerry Gatlin ... stunts (uncredited)
Rock A. Walker ... stunts (uncredited)
Ted White ... stunts (uncredited)
Jack Williams ... stunts (uncredited)
Joe Yrigoyen ... stunts (uncredited)

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Carl Manoogian ... key grip (uncredited)
Bill Swearingen ... assistant camera (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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John A. Anderson ... wardrobe: men
Ruth Stella ... wardrobe: women

Music Department

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Ruby Raksin ... orchestrator
Van Cleave ... orchestrator (as Nathan Van Cleave)
Louise Di Tullio ... musician: flute (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Wayne Cutlip ... wrangler (uncredited)
Carl Skelton ... location auditor (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a "line-rider" job on a vast cattle ranch requiring him to keep trespassers and squatters moving until they're off the property. Ironically, he discovers that the mountain cabin reserved for the line rider has been appropriated by Catherine Allen and her young son, Horace, whose guide has deserted them en route to Oregon to join Catherine's husband. Too soft-hearted and ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter Rocky Mountains winter sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; lonely man and woman soon forget their considerable dissimilarities and start developing a deep, if awkward and unstated, love for each another. Beyond this, Horace finds in Will the father he's never known, and Will finds in Horace the son he's never known he's wanted. The trio's little refuge is then invaded by Bible-quoting preacher Quint and his murderous family of "rawhiders", who'd earlier nearly killed Will over an imagined insult, forcing Will to defend his own "family". Written by Alfred Jingle

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Taglines The brute in every man was also in him... And the love and the violence! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Will Penny, le solitaire (France)
  • Der Verwegene (Germany)
  • El más valiente entre mil (Spain)
  • Ο μεγάλος σκληρός (Greece)
  • Costretto ad uccidere (Italy)
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  • 108 min
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Budget $1,400,000 (estimated)

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Trivia Real antique rifles and pistols were rented as props instead of using studio stock props, in order to give this movie greater authenticity. See more »
Goofs Throughout the movie, Blue (played by Lee Majors) owns and drives a wagon. After the cattle drive is over, he drives his wagon away with his friend Dutchy riding with him. Will Penny (Charlton Heston) and Blue use the wagon to haul Dutchy to the doctor after he is wounded. In the final fight scene, Will and Blue use the wagon to attack the raw-hiders in the line shack allowing Will to jump onto the roof to pour the sulfur down the chimney. Yet in the concluding scene, Will, Blue and Dutchy ride off on horseback leaving the wagon behind with horses still attached to it. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Charlton Heston: For All Seasons (1995). See more »
Soundtracks The Lonely Rider See more »
Quotes Will Penny: [to Catherine] It's just a case of too soon old and too late smart.
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