These Thousand Hills

These Thousand Hills is a 1959 Western film starring Patricia Owens, Alfred Hayes and Richard Egan, and based on the novel of the same name by A. B. Guthrie Jr.. It was directed by Richard Fleischer.

Albert Gallatin Lat Evans Don Murray, an earnest young cowboy determined to better his situation, wins a job with a cattle drive by busting a wild horse. Befriended by cowhand Tom Ping Stuart Whitman, Lat fantasizes about owning his own ranch and being rich one day, unlike his father, who died broke, a failure. When the drive reaches a small Wyoming town, the cowboys congregate at the saloon, where Jehu Richard Egan, an unscrupulous rancher, proposes racing one of their horses against his swift steed. Lat accepts the challenge, and is in the lead when his opponent throws a blanket at his face, causing Lat to lose his balance and fall from his horse. Marshal Conrad Albert Dekker, the towns upstanding banker, intervenes, however, and declares Lat the winner.That night, Tom and Lat celebrate with saloon girls Jen Jean Willes and Callie Lee Remick. With their winnings, they decide to leave the cattle drive and hunt wolves for their hides. After bidding his cowhand friends goodbye, Lat, feeling melancholy, gets drunk and visits Callie. When Lat recalls a traumatic incident from his childhood in which his father beat him for being alone with a girl in the woodshed, Callie feels empathy. ........

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