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Budget. $2.8 million [1] Box office. $2 million [1] [2] Tribute to a Bad Man is a 1956 American Western film directed by Robert Wise and starring James Cagney about a rancher whose harsh enforcement of frontier justice alienates the woman he loves. It was based on the short story "Hanging's for the Lucky" by Jack Schaefer, the author of Shane .
A good cast of western veterans does a solid all around job, and the love interest is also handled well. Definitely not a 5 but better than a 3 entertaining and intelligent.
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- Dennis Schwartz
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- Robert Wise
Sep 10, 2012 · Jack Schaefer's story focuses on a cattle baron's ruthless hold on his vast territory and the tension that arises when his Greek mistress Papas attracts the wrong kind of attention from farmhand ...
May 21, 2015 · Directed by Robert Wise in gorgeous Cinemascope, Tribute to a Bad Man is a fairly standard western as far as westerns go but due to said director, the cinematography and the performances by all involved, the film is really quite good and highly entertaining. Tribute to a Bad Man sees Cagney star as Jeremy Rodock who is the head of a horse ranch ...
Tribute to a Bad Man: Directed by Robert Wise. With James Cagney, Don Dubbins, Stephen McNally, Irene Papas. With no law within 200 miles horse rancher Jeremy Rodak runs his spread with an iron hand and deals with rustlers even more ruthlessly.
Jan 31, 2021 · Somewhere, Tom Powers spits. Because of the Spencer Tracy overruns, “Tribute to a Bad Man” didn’t make back half its cost, and Cagney, a true outdoorsman, increasingly attracted to the western genre, never got to make another western. His good deed (filling in for Tracy) went punished. A better lesson than the mushy one the movie gives us.
Nov 4, 2013 · Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve Miller finds it hard to get used to Rodock's ways, although he takes an immediate shine to his Greek girl Jocasta. Robert Wise. Director. Jack Schaefer.
