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Rage at Dawn (English Subtitled)
Western
Four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint, is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves as a housekeeper and cook to the brothers. Some of them served in the Civil War, which has given them a hardened attitude toward violence.
One brother is killed when they go after a bank in a nearby town, leading them to draw the conclusion that someone that they know is an informant, as the men of the town appeared to have been waiting for them.
They soon learn that it was Murphy, a local bartender, whom they then murder by knocking him out, and tying him up in his barn, which they then set ablaze. The bartender was an agent employed by the Peterson Detective Agency sent to investigate and provide information about the Reno Brothers' crimes.
His replacement is James Barlow, a former secret agent for the Confederacy, who determines to join the gang by posing as a train robber, a ploy which is aided by his being allowed to pull off a staged train robbery (with the full cooperation of the train crew) in the area. He also begins courting Laura. Grudgingly accepted by the brothers, led by Frank Reno, he soon learns that they have corrupted local officials, including a judge, allowing them to operate in that part of the state with impunity.
The brothers plan a train robbery with Barlow, but this proves to be a setup in which they are captured following a shootout and taken to an area jail outside the jurisdiction of the corrupted officials. Townspeople break into the jail and lynch the brothers before they can be brought to trial despite Barlow's "best efforts" to stop them. (The film jumps from him saying they will go to trial, to him outside the jail after the lynching, with no explanation.) Laura accepts his efforts as genuine. (Wikipedia)
Movie Info
Starring: Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers, J. Carrol Naish
Directed by: Tim Whelan
Screenplay by: Horace McCoy
Story by: Frank Gruber
Produced by: Nat Holt
Cinematography: Ray Rennahan
Edited by: Harry Marker
Music by: Paul Sawtell
Production company: Nat Holt Productions
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates: March 26, 1955 (Los Angeles), June 2, 1955 (United States)
Running time: 87 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English, English Subtitled
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