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 Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.
Genre: Western
Stars: Robert Stack, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr, Leo Gordon
Crew: Jacques Tourneur (Director), Robert Hardy Andrews (Novel), Edmund Grainger (Producer), Leith Stevens (Original Music Composer), William E. Snyder (Director of Photography), Harry Marker (Editor)
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studio: Edmund Grainger Productions, RKO Radio Pictures
Runtime: 92 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: May 16, 1956
IMDb: 5.2
Keywords:hotel, gunslinger, card game, love triangle, denver, colorado, gun battle, gold prospector, saloon girl, gunfighter, quick draw, american civil war, knife murder, gold claim, southern gambler, gold mining, eve of war, union soldiers, gun death, eve of us civil war, confederate gold, eve of american civil war, divided loyalties, orphan boy