The Last Posse - Original Trailer 1953 Video

After his Oscar win for All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford found himself working out his Columbia contract in a string of rapidly deteriorating films. The Last Posse was a middling western, the sort that the studio sent out as bottom-of-bill attractions for their prestige pictures. The posse of the title, headed by sheriff Crawford, is a group of ostensibly honest townsfolk. When they catch up with the desperadoes who robbed a wealthy cattle baron, some of the posse members are overcome by greed and plot to keep the stolen loot for themselves. Once Crawford is wounded in a shootout, avarice prevails. There are no real winners at the end, as the remaining posse members straggle back to town, their heads hung in shame.

Broderick Crawford - Sheriff Frazier
John Derek - Jed Clayton
Charles Bickford - Sampson Drune
Wanda Hendrix - Deborah Morley
Warner Anderson - Robert Emerson
Henry Hull - Stokely
Will Wright - Todd Mitchell
Tom Powers - Frank White
Raymond Greenleaf - Albert Hagen
Eddy Waller - Dr. Pryor
Skip Homeier - Art Romer
James Bell - Will Romer
Guy Wilkerson - George Romer
Mira McKinney - Mrs. Mitchell
Helen Wallace - Mrs. White
Harry Hayden - Davis
Monte Blue - Kane
James Kirkwood - Judge Parker