‘The Tin Star’: What It Takes to Keep the Peace

Henry Fonda as a seasoned lawman teaches a boy how to be a man in compelling Western.

Ben Owens (Anthony Perkins, L) and Morgan Hickman (Henry Fonda), in "The Tin Star." MovieStillsDB

NR | 1 h 33 min | Drama, Western | 1957

Millie Parker (Mary Webster) cares for the young, idealistic sheriff, Ben Owens (Anthony Perkins) but not for his tin star. To her, that shiny badge stands for only one thing: death. If she’s going to spend the rest of her life with him, he must quit as sheriff. Her father, who’d been sheriff for 20 years, has just been killed on duty. She doesn’t mind someone keeping the peace, as long as it’s someone else: “I’m going to be a wife, not a widow!”