WICHITA

Original U.S. 22 inch x 28 inch Half Sheet Poster for the 1955 Jacques Tourneur Western WICHITA starring Joel McCrea as Wyatt Earp, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford, Edgar Buchanan, Peter Graves, Keith Larsen as Bat Masterson, Carl Benton Reid, Mae Clarke, Jack Elam and John Smith.

Filmed around the same time as Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wichita is a more modest–and to some, more entertaining–slant on the Wyatt Earp legend. Joel McCrea does his usual smooth, underplayed job as Earp, who aims to bring law and order to the wide-open cow town of Wichita. His least popular move is to take away the guns of everyone in town, no matter how important. Only when town banker McCoy (Walter Coy) is hit with a personal tragedy does Earp’s no-guns edict begin to make sense. Linking the episodic storyline is an offscreen ballad, sung High Noon style by Tex Ritter.

The poster is in very good folded condition with minor rippling and corner pinholes.