The Proud Rebel

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Proud Rebel, 1958.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces The Proud Rebel, 1958.

Breeder Bates (James Westerfield) appears as Chandler and his mute son (Alan Ladd and son David), with their awesome dog, wrangle the sheep the Burleighs (Thomas Pittman, Dean Jagger, Dean Stanton) stampeded onto their employer’s (Olivia de Havilland) crops, in The Proud Rebel, 1958.

Southerner Chandler (Alan Ladd) in Illinois, framed by the Burleighs (Thomas Pittman, Dean Jagger, Dean Stanton), who poured liquor on him after starting a fight, Henry Hull the judge, bystander Linnett (Olivia de Havilland) backing his mute son (Ladd’s son David), in The Proud Rebel, 1958.

Alan Ladd is Chandler, title character, his Southern roots already established, with Ladd’s son David playing his son, visiting Doc Davis (Cecil Kellaway) in a post-Civil War Illinois town, as the main dilemma is revealed, in The Proud Rebel, 1958, co-starring Olivia de Havilland.