Starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Malcolm Atterbury, Claude Akins, John Russell, and Harry Carey Jr. Directed by Howard Hawks. A sheriff is holding a worthless, drunken thug for the murder of an unarmed man in a fight in a saloon -- the problem is that he is the brother of a wealthy land baron who owns a big chunk of the county and can buy all the hired guns he doesn't already have working for him. His men cut the town off to prevent the sheriff from moving his prisoner to more secure surroundings, and then the hired guns come in, waiting around for their chance to break him out of jail. The sheriff has to wait for the United States marshal to show up in six days; his only help is from a toothless, cantankerous old deputy with a bad leg who guards the jail, and his former deputy who's spent the last two years stumbling around in a drunken stupor over a woman that left him.
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