What is Wichita?
Wichita is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Joel McCrea as Wyatt Earp. The film is based on the story of Wyatt Earp serving as marshal in the Kansas cattle town of Wichita between 1874 and 1876, and it won a Golden Globe Award for Best Outdoor Drama.
- Type
- Film
- Year
- 1955
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 81 minutes
- Release date
- Jul 3, 1955
- Studios
- Allied Artists Pictures
- Genres
- Western
- Updated
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Wichita is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Joel McCrea as Wyatt Earp. The film is based on the story of Wyatt Earp serving as marshal in the Kansas cattle town of Wichita between 1874 and 1876, and it won a Golden Globe Award for Best Outdoor Drama.
The film has a runtime of 1 hour and 21 minutes and is classified as a Western. It depicts Earp arriving as an entrepreneur and former buffalo hunter who initially refuses the marshal position until he feels morally obligated to confront the lawless conditions of the wild town.
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“Former buffalo hunter Wyatt Earp must bring law and order to a lawless Kansas town.”
- Stars Joel McCrea as Wyatt Earp
- Directed by Jacques Tourneur
- Won a Golden Globe Award for Best Outdoor Drama
- The provided text contains no explicit mention of reasons to skip the film beyond viewer preference.
Watch it if you enjoy classic Western films about historical lawmen bringing order to frontier towns.
As a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film with a runtime of 1 hour and 21 minutes, it offers a traditional historical drama presentation.
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Is Wichita (1955) worth watching?
The film won a Golden Globe Award for Best Outdoor Drama and stars Joel McCrea under the direction of Jacques Tourneur.
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The film has a total runtime of 1 hour and 21 minutes.
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