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- Release Date: 1949
- Runtime: 94 min
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, War, Western
- Starring: Randolph Scott, Bill Williams, Victor Jory, Jane Nigh ... see all
- Director: Edwin L. Marin
- Plot: In August, 1863, Jim Dancer, searching for the killer of his brother, rides with Quantrell's raiders against Lawrence, Kansas. Yancey, one of the guerrillas most responsible for the band's bad... Read more
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A Good Friend From Low Places
Jul 27, 2007
bkoganbing - imdb.com
Jul 27, 2007bkoganbing - imdb.com
In Fighting Man of the Plains Randolph Scott is a former member of Quantrill's Raiders who kills Barry Kelley's brother during the Civil War and Kelley is hot to get him. He privately hires the Pleasanton (Pinkerton) Detective Agency to... Full review
For men who want to be men and women who are lost without one
Jul 26, 2007
wfdickjr - imdb.com
Jul 26, 2007wfdickjr - imdb.com
If doing the right thing were easy, we would not need the movies. Nor would we need writers so brilliant as to think of telling the truth. As this movie shows so well, we all lie and we all tell... Full review
Scott Western, Routine and Reliable
Jul 26, 2007
Robert J. Maxwell - imdb.com
Jul 26, 2007Robert J. Maxwell - imdb.com
Scott is arrested by James Millican, a detective for the Pleasonton Agency. The two have nothing personal against each other. When the detective is accidentally killed, someone has to cut off his hand to free Scott from the handcuffs. Scott... Full review
SAW IT AS A KID, AND NEVER FORGOT IT....
Sep 16, 2004
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Sep 16, 2004dondellison - imdb.com
I was just 6 years old when I saw "Fighting Man of the Plains"...my parents took me and my sisters to a drive-in movie in Indianapolis, Indiana. We used to go to the drive-in about once a month, because it... Full review
Great script in b/w western
Sep 17, 2001
Jens Carl - imdb.com
Sep 17, 2001Jens Carl - imdb.com
Fighting Man of the Plains takes place after the American civil war, about 1870 and forward. It's a great story starring the one and only Randolph Scott plus other actors and actresses that I have never heard of before.It's strange... Full review
This is one of my favorite Randolph Scott films partly because of the setting in the Civil War and cow town periods of Kansas' history and the plot which concerns a man's efforts to atone for his actions as
Mar 27, 2000
dstevens-3 - imdb.com
Mar 27, 2000dstevens-3 - imdb.com
Although I only saw this film once (when it was released 50 years ago), it is one of my favorite Randolph Scott westerns. The combination of a turbulent setting (Quantrill's murderous raid on Lawrenceville, Kansas, and post Civil War Kansas... Full review
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