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The Outcasts of Poker Flat: Directed by Joseph M. Newman. With Anne Baxter, Dale Robertson, Miriam Hopkins, Cameron Mitchell. Trapped in a snowbound mountain cabin, an assortment of travelers receives the unwelcome visit of a wanted outlaw.
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- Drama, Western
- Joseph M. Newman
- 1952-05-16
The Outcasts of Poker Flat is a 1952 American Western film directed by Joseph M. Newman and starring Anne Baxter and Dale Robertson. The screenplay is based on a short story of the same name by Bret Harte. Harte's story has been brought to film at least five times, including in 1919 with Harry Carey and in 1937 with Preston Foster.
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1869) is a short story written by author of the American West Bret Harte. An example of naturalism and local color of California during the first half of the nineteenth century, the story was first published in January 1869 in the magazine Overland Monthly .
A group of armed men, meant specifically to intimidate Oakhurst, marches the outcasts out of Poker Flat. There are four outcasts in the group: a young lady who is “familiarly known as ‘ The Duchess,’” a man called Uncle Billy who is drunkard and “suspected sluice-robber,” and woman who has somehow earned the nickname Mother Shipton.
Literary devices: Genre. Mood. Setting. Style. Tone. View all. On the morning of November 23, 1850, a gambler named John Oakhurst walks through Poker Flat, a small mining town in the American West. The town’s “moral atmosphere” has changed, and Oakhurst knows that the town is “after somebody.”.
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by Bret Harte. The Outcasts of Poker Flat is about a vigilante committee which sets out to save the town from its moral decline by rounding up "undesirables." It is one of Harte's best known stories about the West, first published in January 1869 in the magazine Overland Monthly. Harry Carey in The Outcasts of Poker Flat, 1919.
