One Foot in Hell

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One Foot in Hell (1960)

16 10/19/1960 (US) Western 1h 30m

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The story of the day hell came to town wearing a badge!

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Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitch to be a deputy sheriff, thereby enabling him to plot an elaborate bank robbery with the help of an artist, a pickpocket, a gunslinger and a bar-girl.

James B. Clark

Director
Aaron Spelling

Screenplay
Sydney Boehm

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Alan Ladd

Mitch Barrett
Don Murray

Dan Keats
Dan O'Herlihy

Sir Harry Ivers
Dolores Michaels

Julie Reynolds
Barry Coe

Stu Christian
Larry Gates

Doc Seltzer
Karl Swenson

Sheriff Ole Olson
John Alexander

Sam Giller - Storekeeper
Rachel Stephens

Ellie Barrett
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on June 10, 2017

The last man and one dollar and eighty seven cents.

One Foot in Hell is directed by James B. Clark and written by Aaron Spelling and Sydney Boehm. It stars Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy, Dolores Michaels, Barry Coe and Larry Gates. A CinemaScope/De Luxe Color production with music by Dominic Frontiere and cinematography by William C. Mellor.

Incensed by the circumstances which led to the death of his wife and unborn child, Mitch Barrett (Ladd) plots revenge against the whole town of Blue Springs.

Alan Ladd's last Western doesn't find him in the best of shape or on the best of fo... read the rest.

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