The Halliday Brand (1957)

Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Betsy Blair, Ward Bond, Bill Williams ... see more  , Jay C. Flippen , Christopher Dark , Jeanette Nolan , John Dierkes , John Halloran , Michael Hinn , I. Stanford Jolley , George Lynn , Robin Short , Glenn Strange , Jay Lawrence , John Ayres

It's "Freud on the Frontier" time in the tension-filled western The Halliday Brand. Ward Bond plays Big Dan, the despotic head of the Halliday clan, while Joseph Cotten and Betsy Blair costar as Halli... read more day's offspring Daniel and Martha. Intensely anti-Indian, Big Dan encourages a mob to lynch Jivaro (Christopher Dark), Martha's half-breed sweetheart. Despising his father's complicity in Jivaro's death, Daniel breaks off his relationship with the elder Halliday, casting his lot with Jivaro's father (Jay C. Flippen) and sister (Viveca Lindfors). The climactic showdown between father and son is superbly and innovatively handled by director Joseph H. Lewis. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi