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Saddle the Wind

Saddle the Wind

1958Movie⏱️ 1h 24mApproved
DramaWestern
6.6
IMDB Rating
1,865 votes

Former gunslinger Steve Sinclair is now a peaceful rancher, but things go wrong after his wild brother Tony arrives with his new gun--and his new fiancée, former saloon girl Joan Blake.

Director
N/A
Writers
Rod Serling, Thomas Thompson, Daniel Fuchs
Stars
Robert Taylor, Julie London, John Cassavetes
Release Date
March 5, 1958
Language
English, Spanish
Country
United States
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor
as Steve Sinclair
Julie London
Julie London
as Joan Blake
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes
as Tony Sinclair
Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp
as Dennis Deneen
Charles McGraw
Charles McGraw
as Larry Venables
Royal Dano
Royal Dano
as Clay Ellison
Richard Erdman
Richard Erdman
as Dallas Hanson
Douglas Spencer
Douglas Spencer
as Hemp Scribner
Ray Teal
Ray Teal
as Brick Larson
Stanley Adams
Stanley Adams
as Joe

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Filming Location
Rosita, Colorado, USA
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

🏷️ Keywords

brother brother relationshipgunslingermurderbarbed wireimmaturity

🎯 Categories

Classical WesternDramaWestern

⭐ Featured Review

Excellent, subversive Western.
by the red duchess2000-10-31
7/10

"In the 1950s, the best way to attack an intolerably conformist society was to take a harmless 'popular' genre and subvert it, overturn its assumptions. Sirk did it with the woman's picture, Minnelli with the musical, Hitchcock with the thriller; Robert Parrish does it here with the Western, with a vision of Eisenhower family-values capitalist America as a medieval feudality, where everyone must pay obeisance to a landowner, where the stable family unit consists of a killer and a wild sexual neurotic, and where capitalism is actually destructive to the family and continuity, a st..."

💡 Did You Know?

A first score was written and recorded by Jeff Alexander but had to be replaced due to extensive re-cutting.

📖 Synopsis

Former gunslinger Steve Sinclair is now a peaceful rancher, but things go wrong after his wild brother Tony arrives with his new gun--and his new fiancée, former saloon girl Joan Blake.