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  Anthony Mann

  regizor

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  Arnold Schulman

  scenarist

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  Glenn Ford

  Yancey Cravat
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  Anne Baxter

  Dixie Lee
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  Maria Schell

  Sabra Cravat
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  Arthur O'Connell

  Tom Wyatt
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  Helen Westcott

  Miss Kuye - Schoolteacher
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  David Opatoshu

  Sol Levy (shopkeeper)

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  Lili Darvas

  Felicia Venable (Sabra's mother)
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  Janet Brandt

  Madam Rhoda
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  Walter Merrill

  Reporter
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  Russ Tamblyn

  William Hardy/The Cherokee Kid
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  Mary Wickes

  Mrs. Neal Hefner
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  Andy Albin

  Water Man
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  Royal Dano

  Ike Howes (photographer)

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  Vic Morrow

  Wes Jennings (Cherokee Kid gang)
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  Charles Seel

  Charles
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  Charles Watts

  Lou Brothers (politician)
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  Charles McGraw

  Bob Yountis
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  Edgar Buchanan

  Judge Neal Hefner
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  John L. Cason

  Suggs
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  Mary Benoit

  Mrs. Lancey
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  Harry Morgan

  Jessie Rickey (printer)
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  Mercedes McCambridge

  Mrs. Sarah Wyatt
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  Vladimir Sokoloff

  Jacob Krubeckoff (sculptor)
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  Robert Keith

  Sam Pegler
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  Aline MacMahon

  Mrs. Mavis Pegler