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Great Day in the Morning is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jacques Tourneur released in USA on 16 may 1956 with Virginia Mayo
Great Day in the Morning (1956)
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Add to a movie listGreat Day in the Morning is a Technicolor Superscope 1956 film. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur and stars Robert Stack and Virginia Mayo in a story set in 1860s Denver.
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In the year 1861, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War in the Colorado Territory, Owen Pentecost (Robert Stack) is a man from North Carolina who comes west to Denver on a whim. He encounters Ann Merry Alaine (Virginia Mayo), who is going there to open a dress shop.Actors
Virginia Mayo
(Ann Merry Alaine)
Robert Stack
(Owen Pentecost)
Ruth Roman
(Boston Grant)
Alex Nicol
(Captain Stephen Kirby)
Raymond Burr
(Jumbo Means)
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