Vengeance Valley

Vengeance Valley is a 1951 American Technicolor Western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Burt Lancaster, with a supporting cast featuring Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Sally Forrest, John Ireland and Ray Collins. It is based on the novel by Luke Short. In 1979, the film entered the public domain in the United States because Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.^[2]

Plot

Owen Daybright is the foreman at the Colorado cattleman Arch Strobie’s ranch and is also Strobie’s foster son. When Own and his foster brother Lee Strobie visit the local saloon they hear that Lily Fasken has had a baby. The doctor says he didn’t attend the birth because the father didn’t ask for him. Lee is very interested in the birth. Owen takes some food, and $500, to Lily and find’s Lee’s wife Jen and Lily’s brother Dick at the house. Dick has been trying all day to find out who the father of Lily’s baby is. Owen is very concerned for Lily’s welfare. Jen asks him who the father is but Owen doesn’t reply. Dick suspects that Owen is the father but Jen tells him that it isn’t as Owen is a good man.

Back at the saloon Lee thanks Owen for helping Lily and covering up for him, saying he can’t admit being the father as Jen wouldn’t understand. Dick arrives and threatens Owen with a gun, but they are interrupted by the sheriff.