Chisum official wallpaper
Chisum poster

Chisum

  • 6.8 /10

  • 200

  • 83%

Plot

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.

Cast

John Wayne as John Chisum
John Wayne

as John Chisum

Forrest Tucker as Lawrence Murphy
Forrest Tucker

as Lawrence Murphy

Christopher George as Dan Nodeen
Christopher George

as Dan Nodeen

Ben Johnson as James Pepper
Ben Johnson

as James Pepper

Glenn Corbett as Pat Garrett
Glenn Corbett

as Pat Garrett

Andrew Prine as Alex McSween
Andrew Prine

as Alex McSween

Bruce Cabot as Sheriff Brady
Bruce Cabot

as Sheriff Brady

Patric Knowles as Henry Tunstall
Patric Knowles

as Henry Tunstall

Richard Jaeckel as Jess Evans
Richard Jaeckel

as Jess Evans

Lynda Day George as Sue McSween
Lynda Day George

as Sue McSween

Movie Facts

Rated

  • G

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • July 23, 1970

Production Companies

  • Batjac Productions

  • Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $4,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $6,000,000.00

Runtime

  • 1.85 hrs

Links

Gallery

Reviews

Maybe it is because I grew up with watching John Wayne (my father was a big fan of western movies) but I still really like these old goodies with John Wayne. Actually there are few movies with John Wayne that I do not like even though all of them are rather outdated in this age of overkill action and special effects. This is definitely one of the better ones. John Wayne is doing what he does b…

When "Sallie" (Pamela McMyler) arrives at her uncle's ranch, she is immediately impressed by the huge scale of the place. "It'd take a man on a good horse most of the summer to cover it" explains her uncle, it's owner, John Chisum (John Wayne). Together with his weary sidekick "Pepper" (Ben Johnson) they fought pestilence and Indians and now have a cattle empire the envy of many - including the u…