What information we have on Shootout At Big Sag is that Walter Brennan produced and starred in this feature which he had in mind for a series pilot. I find
that hard to believe because he was starring in a successful TV series at that point.
And Brennan would have been nuts to abandon The Real McCoys when that wasw
doing so well.
The film concerns two families the Hawkers and the Barbeys in Montana. The Hawkers have settled there and the Barbeys have moved up from Texas to become neighbors. Walter Brennan who fancies himself an itinerant preacher is the patriarch of the Hawkers and Leif Erickson is head of the Barbey clan.
These two don't get along even though Brennan's daughter Luana Patten and Erickson's son Chris Robinson are courting. But they have to team up because saloon owner Les Tremayne wants to put them both out of business. Tremayne has a Snidely Whiplash interest in Patten.
Best in this film are Virginia Greg as Tremayne's alcoholic mistress and Virginia Gregg as Brennan's estranged wife.
This was a strange western with an incoherent plot and dull cinematography. No wonder here why it wasn't picked up for a TV series.
The film concerns two families the Hawkers and the Barbeys in Montana. The Hawkers have settled there and the Barbeys have moved up from Texas to become neighbors. Walter Brennan who fancies himself an itinerant preacher is the patriarch of the Hawkers and Leif Erickson is head of the Barbey clan.
These two don't get along even though Brennan's daughter Luana Patten and Erickson's son Chris Robinson are courting. But they have to team up because saloon owner Les Tremayne wants to put them both out of business. Tremayne has a Snidely Whiplash interest in Patten.
Best in this film are Virginia Greg as Tremayne's alcoholic mistress and Virginia Gregg as Brennan's estranged wife.
This was a strange western with an incoherent plot and dull cinematography. No wonder here why it wasn't picked up for a TV series.