The Iron Sheriff
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“The whole town crawled under his gun...”
Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie. Sworn to uphold the law at all costs, Galt is grimly determined to see that Benjie will receive a fair trial without any coercion on his part. But the townsfolk have already decided that the sheriff will try to spring the boy, and a lynch-mob mentality slows festers its way through the community. As the trial proceeds, it becomes obvious that Benjie is going to hang for his alleged crime, but there's still one or two surprises in store.
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Cast
29 people
Sterling Hayden
Sheriff Samuel Galt
Known for
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Killing
Darryl Hickman
Benjie Galt
Known for
The Tingler
Network
Sidney Salkow
Seeleg Lester
Kenneth Peach
Jerome C Robinson
Constance Ford
Claire
Known for
Home from the Hill
A Summer Place
Herman N. Schoenbrun
John Dehner
Roger Pollack
Known for
Airplane II: The Sequel
The Left Handed Gun
Grant Whytock
Kent Taylor
Phil Quincy
Known for
Death Takes a Holiday
I'm No Angel
Emil Newman
Sidney Salkow Director · Seeleg Lester Writer Kenneth Peach Cinematographer
Budget $2M · United States release April 1, 1957 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$1,957,000
Production
Grand Productions (I)
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · April 1, 1957
Theatrical
Finland
August 2, 1957
Ireland
October 31, 1958
Mexico
September 17, 1965
Sweden
November 4, 1957
United Kingdom
April 4, 2016 · Physical · DVD
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