The Outcasts of Poker Flat

1952
PG
1h 21m

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Anne Baxter, Barbara Bates, Cameron Mitchell, and Dale Robertson in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952)

Trapped in a snowbound mountain cabin, an assortment of travelers receives the unwelcome visit of a wanted outlaw.Trapped in a snowbound mountain cabin, an assortment of travelers receives the unwelcome visit of a wanted outlaw.Trapped in a snowbound mountain cabin, an assortment of travelers receives the unwelcome visit of a wanted outlaw.

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Anne Baxter

Cal Ryker

Dale Robertson

John Oakhurst

Miriam Hopkins

Mrs. Shipton aka 'The Duchess'

Cameron Mitchell

Ryker

Craig Hill

Tom Dakin

Barbara Bates

Piney Wilson

William H. Lynn

Jake Watterson
(as Billy Lynn)

Dick Rich

Drunk

Robert Adler

Vigilante
(uncredited)

Jack Byron

Miner
(uncredited)

Kit Carson

Man
(uncredited)

Harry Carter

Townsman
(uncredited)

Russ Conway

Vigilante
(uncredited)

Tom Greenway

Townsman
(uncredited)

Harry Harvey

George Larabee
(uncredited)

Joe Haworth

Gunman
(uncredited)

Lee Phelps

Man
(uncredited)

John Ridgely

Bill Akeley
(uncredited)

Director
- Joseph M. Newman
Writers
- Bret Harte
- Edmund H. North
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Trivia
Joesph Newman chose Cameron Mitchell instead of John Ireland for a supporting role. Ireland never forgave Newman for this.

Goofs
The song, "Mockingbird Hill", heard during the opening scene was released in 1951, based on "Livet i Finnskogarna", written in 1915.

Quotes
Cal: I can't figure you out.
John Oakhurst: Maybe it's because I'm a gambler, not a crook.

Connections
Version of Luck of Roaring Camp (1910)

Soundtracks
Little Brown Jug
(uncredited)
Written by Joseph Winner
Heard in the opening scene, played on one of the saloons

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8/10

"We've used that tree before and we'll use it again"

Bill Everson declared that most versions of Bret Harte's 1869 story were "strong on talk and dramatics, decidedly weak on visuals", which is a bit hard on Joseph LaShelle's atmospheric work on this instalment which resembles a film noir as much as a western.

You always know you're in for something special when it snows in a western, and this cross between 'Boule de Suif' and 'The Petrified Forest' doesn't disappoint, with Anne Baxter radiant in an early film in her transition from ingenue to lady with a past.