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Will Penny is a 1968 American Western film written and directed by Tom Gries and starring Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett and Donald Pleasence. The picture was based upon an episode of the 1960 Sam Peckinpah television series The Westerner starring Brian Keith called "Line Camp," also written and directed by Tom Gries.
Will Penny: Directed by Tom Gries. With Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors. Aging cowboy Will Penny gets a line camp job on a large cattle spread and finds his isolated cabin is already occupied by an abandoned woman traveler and her young son.
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- Drama, Romance, Western
- Tom Gries
- 1968-04-10
Love, in many recent movies, has become as mechanical as marriage used to be. But in "Will Penny," the man and woman are quite properly shy about each other, even though the situation is complicated when they are snowbound in a remote cabin with Miss Hackett's young son.
Hollywood legend Charlton Heston stars as Will Penny, an aging cowboy on a hard-luck streak. He's out of work, out of money, and staked out to die in the desert by a gang of ruthless outlaws ...
When aging loner Will Penny (Charlton Heston) is hired to ride the lines around a vast ranch, he stumbles upon Catherine Allen (Joan Hackett) and her son, who are secretly living in an...
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- Charlton Heston
- Tom Gries
- Paramount Pictures
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a "line-rider" job on a vast cattle ranch requiring him to keep trespassers and squatters moving until they're off the property.
Will Penny, a middle-aged cowpuncher who has always been a loner, joins two younger men, Dutchy and Blue, in search of winter work after completing a long cattle drive in Montana in the 1880's.
