The Lonely Man (1957)

6.1/10 88 min Western

Overview

Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...

Cast

Jack Palance

Jacob Wade

Anthony Perkins

Riley Wade

Neville Brand

King Fisher

Robert Middleton

Ben Ryerson

Elisha Cook Jr.

Willie

Claude Akins

Blackburn

Lee Van Cleef

Faro

Harry Shannon

Dr. Fisher

James Bell

Judge Hart

Adam Williams

Lon

Denver Pyle

Brad, Red Bluff Sheriff

John Doucette

Sundown Whipple

Paul Newlan

Fence Green

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Singer

Elaine Aiken

Ada Marshall

Ray Boyle

Taggart Casey

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