The Tin Star

     

The Tin Star1957

Stars: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michel Ray
Genre: Western
Rating: APPROVED
Runtime: 93 minutes

The Tin Star is a 1957 American western film based on a short story, directed in VistaVision by Anthony Mann and starring Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins, in one of Perkins' first roles. The film became one of the few low-budget westerns to be nomin… more »


Morg Hickman:
To have confidence, you gotta keep a cool head. Don't take any chances you don't have to; but, wait... and end the fight with one shot.

Sheriff Ben Owens:
Wait?

Morg Hickman:
It's that time you wait - that split second - that means the difference between missin' a man and killin' him.

Sheriff Ben Owens:
I don't wanna kill nobody.

Morg Hickman:
Take your guns off.

Sheriff Ben Owens:
The law says a man ain't to be shot without his chance to surrender.

Morg Hickman:
Or make his fight. As long as you're wearin' that badge, you gotta walk up, tell him to throw 'em up and then watch which way his hands move. If they go up, you got yourself a prisoner. They go down, he's dead... or you are.

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