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Released
1946 · FILM

The Virginian

The All-Time Best-Selling Love Story of the West... Now On the Screen In Spectacular Technicolor!

Directed by
Runtime
87 min
DramaWestern

Synopsis

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Everett DouglasShot by Harry HallenbergerScored by Daniele Amfitheatrof

Also known as

  • Der Mann aus Virginiade
  • El virginianoes
  • Le Traître du Far-Westfr
  • Il virginianoit

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