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60% Critic Match
Great Day in the Morning
“THE BUGLE BLAST that echoed thru history!”
6.0 / 10• 1956• 1h 32m•NR• English
Western
Storyline
After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.
Cast & Crew
Robert Stack
Owen Pentecost
Lead
Virginia Mayo
Ann Merry Alaine
Ruth Roman
Boston Grant
Alex Nicol
Captain Stephen Kirby
Raymond Burr
Jumbo Means
Leo Gordon
Zeff Masterson
Regis Toomey
Father Murphy
Carleton Young
Col. Gibson
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jacques Tourneur's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Great Day in the Morning is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
