Great Day in the Morning

Great Day in the Morning is a 1956 American Technicolor Superscope western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, and Ruth Roman. It was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The story is set in 1860s Denver.

Plot
In the year 1861, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War in the Colorado Territory, Owen Pentecost (Robert Stack) is a man from North Carolina who comes west to Denver on a whim. He encounters Ann Merry Alaine (Virginia Mayo), who is going there to open a dress shop.

In a Denver hotel saloon, Owen wins a poker game with the owner, Jumbo Means (Raymond Burr), who bet his estate on the last hand. Along with the hotel comes Boston Grant (Ruth Roman), who works there.

Both women begin to fall for Owen. He has money on his mind, specifically the gold of the town's Confederates, which turns out to be what brought him here. But the predominantly Union town wants the gold, and with the Civil War approaching, the town is split. Owen leads the Southerners in an escape attempt with the gold.

Cast

 * Robert Stack as Owen
 * Virginia Mayo as Ann Merry
 * Ruth Roman as Boston
 * Raymond Burr as Jumbo
 * Alex Nicol as Capt. Kirby
 * Regis Toomey as Father Murphy
 * Leo Gordon as Zeff Masterson
 * Carlton Young as Col. Gibson
 * Donald MacDonald as Gary John Lawford
 * Peter Whitney as Phil the Cannibal
 * Dan White as Rogers (uncredited)