| Great Day in the Morning | |
| Director: | Jacques Tourneur |
| Producer: | Edmund Grainger |
| Screenplay: | Lesser Samuels |
| Starring: | Virginia Mayo Robert Stack Ruth Roman |
| Music: | Leith Stevens |
| Cinematography: | William E. Snyder |
| Editing: | Harry Marker |
| Studio: | Edmund Grainger Productions |
| Distributor: | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Runtime: | 92 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
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.[1] [2] It was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The story is set in 1860s Denver.
In 1861, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, Owen Pentecost is a man from North Carolina who comes west to Denver in the Colorado Territory on a whim. He encounters Ann Merry Alaine, who is going there to open a dress shop.
In a Denver hotel saloon, Owen wins a poker game with the owner, Jumbo Means, who bet his estate on the last hand. Along with the hotel comes Boston Grant, 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.