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“Never was a bronc that couldn‘t be rode. Never was a cowboy that couldn’t be throwed."
Spinning tales of big money made as a bronco buster, an ex-rodeo star (Robert Mitchum) wanders into the life of ranch hand Wes Merritt (Arthur Kennedy). Wes is won over, despite the protests of his wife (Susan Hayward), who, against her judgment, feels drawn to the stranger, too. Directed by Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause), The Lusty Men finds poetry in the heart-stopping action of the rodeo ring, in the simmering sexuality of Mitchum’s laconic masculinity and Hayward‘s fiery beauty, and in the everyday grit of the postwar West: cramped trailers, pot roast in a cast-iron skillet, men breaking their bones for a paltry payday. “Mitchum is at his best as the seen-it-all, done-it-twice ex-champ” (Michael Barson, The Illustrated Who's Who of Hollywood Directors).
Original Release
10/02/1952
US Release
10/02/1952
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Susan Hayward | Louise Merritt |
Robert Mitchum | Jeff McCloud |
Arthur Kennedy | Wes Merritt |
Arthur Hunnicutt | Booker Davis |
Frank Faylen | Al Dawson |
Walter Coy | Buster Burgess |
Carol Nugent | Rusty Davis |
Maria Hart | Rosemary Maddox |
Lorna Thayer | Grace Burgess |
Burt Mustin | Jeremiah Watrus |
Directors
Writers
Horace McCoy, David Dortort, Claude Stanush, Alfred Hayes, Andrew Solt, Jerry Wald
Cast
Name | Character |
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Susan Hayward | Louise Merritt |
Robert Mitchum | Jeff McCloud |
Arthur Kennedy | Wes Merritt |
Arthur Hunnicutt | Booker Davis |
Frank Faylen | Al Dawson |
Walter Coy | Buster Burgess |
Carol Nugent | Rusty Davis |
Maria Hart | Rosemary Maddox |
Lorna Thayer | Grace Burgess |
Burt Mustin | Jeremiah Watrus |
Karen Randle | Ginny Logan |
Jimmie Dodd | Red Logan |
Eleanor Todd | Babs |
Emile Avery | Cowboy at Knife Fight |
Barbara Blaine | Bit Part |
Hazel Boyne | Bit Part |
Robert Bray | Fritz |
Buck Bucko | Rodeo Official |
Roy Bucko | Rodeo Official |
Bob Burrows | Cowboy |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Tom Gries | Producer |
Norman Krasna | Producer |
Jerry Wald | Producer |