''Hannah Lee'' (also known as ''Outlaw Territory'' and ''Hannah Lee: An American Primitive'') is a 1953 American

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film directed by

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and

John Ireland John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in ''All the King's Men'' (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Oscar nomin ...

. It was originally filmed in stereoscopic 3-D

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using the twin-Camerette 3-D system by Stereo-Cine Corp. Based on the novel "Wicked Water" by

MacKinlay Kantor MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded th ...

Plot

Bus Crow (

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), a professional gunfighter from Texas, arrives in Pearl City looking for work. After slapping around a boy who offers to watch his horse and shooting someone over a small slight at the local saloon, he makes quite an impression on the locals. This leads to his being hired by powerful ranchers to convince squatters to leave the area. U.S. Marshal Sam Rochelle (

) is brought in to investigate subsequent murders and immediately suspects Crow.

Cast

Joanne Dru Joanne Dru (born Joan Letitia LaCock;Known as Joan Lacock in th1930 United States census/ref> January 31, 1922 – September 10, 1996) was an American film and television actress, known for such films as '' Red River'', ''She Wore a Yellow Ribbo ...

, as Hannah *

, as Crow *

, as Marshal Rochelle *

Frank Ferguson Frank S. Ferguson (December 25, 1906 – September 12, 1978) was an American character actor with hundreds of appearances in both film and television. Background Ferguson was the younger of two children of W. Thomas Ferguson, a native Scottish ...

, as John Britton *

Tom Powers Thomas McCreery Powers (July 7, 1890 – November 9, 1955) was an American actor in theatre, films, radio and television. A veteran of the Broadway stage, notably in plays by George Bernard Shaw, he created the role of Charles Marsden in Eug ...

, as the town sheriff

External links

* * * http://www.screeninsults.com/outlaw-territory.php * http://forum.westernmovies.fr/viewtopic.php?t=8573 1953 films 1953 Western (genre) films American 3D films 1953 3D films American Western (genre) films Films based on works by MacKinlay Kantor Films scored by Paul Dunlap Squatting in film Revisionist Western (genre) films 1950s English-language films Films directed by John Ireland 1950s American films {{1950s-Western-film-stub