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.

Robert Stack
as Owen Pentecost

Virginia Mayo
as Ann Merry Alaine

Ruth Roman
as Boston Grant

Alex Nicol
as Captain Stephen Kirby

Raymond Burr
as Jumbo Means

Leo Gordon
as Zeff Masterson

Regis Toomey
as Father Murphy

Carleton Young
as Col. Gibson

Donald MacDonald
as Gary John Lawford

Kermit Maynard
as Southern Sympathizer (uncredited)
John Chard
Even big men cry sometimes. Great Day in the Morning is directed by Jacques Tourneur and written by Lesser Samuels. It stars Robert Stack, Virginia Mayo, Raymond Burr, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Leo Gordon and Regis Toomey. Music is by Leith Stevens and cinematography by William E. Snyder. A Tech...