
Feature film — 1956
Great Day in the Morning (1956)
After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.
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A high-signal pick with 30 votes.
Edmund Grainger Productions / RKO Radio Pictures
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Director: Jacques Tourneur
On screen
Cast & crew

Robert Stack
Owen Pentecost

Virginia Mayo
Ann Merry Alaine

Ruth Roman
Boston Grant

Alex Nicol
Captain Stephen Kirby

Raymond Burr
Jumbo Means

Leo Gordon
Zeff Masterson

Regis Toomey
Father Murphy

Carleton Young
Col. Gibson
Donald MacDonald
Gary John Lawford

Kermit Maynard
Southern Sympathizer (uncredited)
Paul McGuire
Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

Burt Mustin
Doctor (uncredited)
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