Man Without a Star is a 1955 western film

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 starring Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...

 as a wanderer who gets dragged into a range war

Range war

A range war is a type of conflict that occurs in agrarian or stockrearing societies. Typically fought over water rights or grazing rights to unfenced/unowned land, it could pit competing farmers or ranchers against each other...

. It was based on the novel of the same name by Dee Linford.

Plot

Easygoing cowboy Dempsey Rae (Kirk Douglas) and his impressionable young friend Jeff Jimson (William Campbell

William Campbell (film actor)

William Campbell was an American actor who appeared in supporting roles in major film productions and also starred in several low-budget B-movies, including two cult horror films.-Career:...

) wander into town and are hired to work for an absentee rancher named Reed Bowman. When Bowman finally shows up, Dempsey is surprised to find that he has been working for a very attractive woman (Jeanne Crain

Jeanne Crain

Jeanne Elizabeth Crain was an American actress.-Early life:Crain was born in Barstow, California, to George A. Crain, a school teacher, and Loretta Carr; she was of Irish heritage on her mother's side, and of English and distant French descent on her father's...

), one who has very ambitious plans. These lead to conflict with her neighbors.

Cast

• Kirk Douglas as Dempsey Rae
• Jeanne Crain
  Jeanne Crain
  Jeanne Elizabeth Crain was an American actress.-Early life:Crain was born in Barstow, California, to George A. Crain, a school teacher, and Loretta Carr; she was of Irish heritage on her mother's side, and of English and distant French descent on her father's...
  
   as Reed Bowman
• Claire Trevor
  Claire Trevor
  Claire Trevor was an Academy Award-winning American actress. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in "bad girl” roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers...
  
   as Idonee
• William Campbell
  William Campbell (film actor)
  William Campbell was an American actor who appeared in supporting roles in major film productions and also starred in several low-budget B-movies, including two cult horror films.-Career:...
  
   as Jeff "Texas" Jimson
• Richard Boone
  Richard Boone
  Richard Allen Boone was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns and for starring in the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel.-Early life:...
  
   as Steve Miles
• Jay C. Flippen
  Jay C. Flippen
  Jay C. Flippen is an American character actor who often played police officers or weary criminals in many films of the 1940s/'50s....
  
   as Strap Davis
• Myrna Hansen
  Myrna Hansen
  -Education:She graduated from Carl Schurz High School in Chicago, Illinois, in June 1953. Prior to competing in the1953 Miss Universe contest, Hansen planned to study animal husbandryin Colorado...
  
   as Tess Cassidy
• Mara Corday
  Mara Corday
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   as Moccasin Mary
• Eddy Waller
  Eddy Waller
  Edward C. "Eddy" Waller was an American film and television actor. He was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.-Career:...
  
   as Tom Cassidy (as Eddy C. Waller)
• Sheb Wooley
  Sheb Wooley
  Shelby F. "Sheb" Wooley was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty song "Purple People Eater"...
  
   as Latigo
• George Wallace
  George D. Wallace
  George Dewey Wallace was an American stage and screen actor.Wallace co-starred with Mary Martin in the Broadway musical Jennie and was nominated for a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for playing the male lead in New Girl in Town opposite Gwen Verdon...
  
   as Tom Carter
• Frank Chase as Little Waco
• Paul Birch
  Paul Birch (actor)
  Paul Birch was an American actor of stage and film.Birch was born Paul Smith in Atmore, Alabama. He was a veteran of 39 movies, 50 stage dramas and a number of television shows including the Hallmark Hall of Fame...
  
   as Mark Toliver
• Roy Barcroft
  Roy Barcroft
  Roy Barcroft was an American character actor famous for playing villains in B-Westerns and other genres. Noted film critic Leonard Maltin acclaimed Barcroft as "Republic Pictures' number one bad guy".-Early life:...
  
  as Sheriff Olson
• William "Bill"' Phillips as Cookie (as Wm. "Bill" Phillips)