Chisum

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.

Cast

John Wayne

as John Chisum

Forrest Tucker

as Lawrence Murphy

Christopher George

as Dan Nodeen

Ben Johnson

as James Pepper

Glenn Corbett

as Pat Garrett

Andrew Prine

as Alex McSween

Bruce Cabot

as Sheriff Brady

Patric Knowles

as Henry Tunstall

Richard Jaeckel

as Jess Evans

Lynda Day George

as Sue McSween

Reviews

Per Gunnar Jonsson

Maybe it is because I grew up with watching John Wayne (my father was a big fan of western movies) but I still really like these old goodies with John Wayne. Actually there are few movies with John Wayne that I do not like even though all of them are rather outdated in this age of overkill action an...

CinemaSerf

When "Sallie" (Pamela McMyler) arrives at her uncle's ranch, she is immediately impressed by the huge scale of the place. "It'd take a man on a good horse most of the summer to cover it" explains her uncle, it's owner, John Chisum (John Wayne). Together with his weary sidekick "Pepper" (Ben Johnson)...

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