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Wichita
Wichita
Directed by	Jacques Tourneur
Screenplay by	Daniel B. Ullman
Story by	Daniel B. Ullman
Produced by	Walter Mirisch; Victor Heerman
Starring	Joel McCrea
Cinematography	Harold Lipstein
Edited by	William Austin
Music by	Hans J. Salter
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Allied Artists Pictures
Distributed by	Allied Artists Pictures
Release date	July 3, 1955;
Running time	81 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.4 million (US)

Wichita is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Joel McCrea as Wyatt Earp. The film won a Golden Globe Award for Best Outdoor Drama. The supporting cast features Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Edgar Buchanan, Peter Graves, Jack Elam and Mae Clarke. The film's premiere was held in Wichita, Kansas, at The Wichita Theatre, 310 East Douglas, with the stars in attendance. Vera Miles had been Miss Kansas in 1948 and was third runner up in the Miss America pageant. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded the film with "Best Picture - Outdoor Drama" in 1955.

It was mostly filmed in California,^[2] including in Thousand Oaks, CA.^[3]

Plot edit

Former bison hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp (Joel McCrea) arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita, Kansas. His skills as a gunfighter make him a perfect candidate for marshal but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town. His least popular move is to take away the guns of everyone in town, no matter how important. Only when town banker Sam McCoy (Walter Coy) is hit with a personal tragedy does Earp's no-guns edict begin to make sense.^[4]

Cast edit

Joel McCrea as Wyatt Earp
Vera Miles as Laurie McCoy
Lloyd Bridges as Gyp Clements
Wallace Ford as Arthur Whiteside
Edgar Buchanan as Doc Black
Peter Graves as Morgan Earp
Keith Larsen as Bat Masterson
Carl Benton Reid as Mayor Andrew Hoke
John Smith as Jim Earp
Walter Coy as Sam McCoy
Robert J. Wilke as Ben Thompson (as Robert Wilke)
Jack Elam as Al
Mae Clarke as Mrs. McCoy
Walter Sande as Clint Wallace

References edit

^ 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955', Variety Weekly, January 25, 1956
^ "Wichita (1955) - IMDb". IMDb.
^ Fujiwara, Chris (2013). Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall. McFarland. Page 308. ISBN 9781476608112.
^ "Wichita (1955) - Jacques Tourneur - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.