The Big Land

The Big Land is a 1957 Warnercolor Western directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Alan Ladd.

Blamed for what happened, Morgan chooses not to return to Texas. He spends a night in a livery stable and meets town drunk Joe Jagger Edmond OBrien, who is nearly lynched for trying to steal whiskey. Chad helps keep Joe sober after they leave town.They meet farmers who need a better way to sell their wheat, so Chad and Joe ride to Kansas City to meet Tom Draper Don Castle, a railroad man who is engaged to Joes sister Helen Virginia Mayo, a singer in the saloon. Tom likes the idea of a railroad spur to aid the farmers. ........

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