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Good Day for a Hanging is a american film of genre Action directed by Nathan Juran released in USA on 1 january 1959 with Fred MacMurray
Good Day for a Hanging (1959)
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Add to a movie listGood Day for a Hanging (1959) is a western concerning how a town views the upcoming hanging of a young man accused of murdering the Marshal during a robbery. Directed by Nathan H. Juran, it stars Fred MacMurray as the reluctant new Marshal and Robert Vaughn as the young man accused of the crime.
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Eddie Campbell (Robert Vaughn) watches a stagecoach as it rides toward a Nebraska town. Other members of his gang are waiting there to rob the bank. Ben Cutler (Fred MacMurray), owner of the stage line, is on board, and is returning home to be wed to Ruth Granger (Margaret Hayes).Actors
Fred MacMurray
(Marshal Ben Cutler)
Robert Vaughn
(Eddie 'The Kid' Campbell)
Margaret Hayes
(Ruth Granger)
Joan Blackman
(Laurie Cutler)
James Drury
(Paul Ridgely)
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