The Proud Rebel

A former Confederate soldier travels to an Illinois town seeking help for his mute son, gets into a fight over their dog with a rancher, and ends up working on a farm owned by a woman pressured to sell her land, where he sells the dog to finance his sons Minnesota trip, but eventually returns with the dog to cure his sons muteness. The Proud Rebel is a 1958 American English-language Western Drama film featuring Alan Ladd, Olivia De Havilland, Dean Jagger, David Ladd, Cecil Kellaway, Harry Dean Stanton and Mary Wickes. The movie is inspired from Journal of Linnett Moore 1947 story in The Country Gentleman by James Edward Grant. Formosa Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Samuel Goldwyn Jr. The Proud Rebel is written by Joseph Petracca, Lillie Hayward and James Edward Grant and it is directed by Michael Curtiz. Buena Vista Distribution acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. The Proud Rebel was released on 1st July 1958 and takes a screen time of 103 minutes. The Proud Rebel was made on a budget of $1 million and at the box office it grossed only $0 million. Cinematography was done by Ted D. McCord and editing by Aaron Stell. The music was composed by Jerome Moross.