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Release Date: 1955

Cast: Joanne Woodward, Allison Hayes, Van Heflin, Raymond Burr

Categories: Movies, Western

Count Three and Pray is a 1955 CinemaScope western film starring Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward (in her film debut) and Raymond Burr. It was based on the story Calico Pony (also the working title of the film by Herb Meadow. It premiered in Woodward's home town, Greenville, South Carolina, at the Paris Theatre. Former brawler and womanizer Luke Fargo (Van Heflin) returns from the American Civil War to his Southern hometown a greatly changed man. Following his traumatic experiences at the Battle of Vicksburg he is now a Minister, intent on rebuilding the only church. He is greeted with... MORE

Count Three and Pray is a 1955 CinemaScope western film starring Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward (in her film debut) and Raymond Burr. It was based on the story Calico Pony (also the working title of the film by Herb Meadow. It premiered in Woodward's home town, Greenville, South Carolina, at the Paris Theatre. Former brawler and womanizer Luke Fargo (Van Heflin) returns from the American Civil War to his Southern hometown a greatly changed man. Following his traumatic experiences at the Battle of Vicksburg he is now a Minister, intent on rebuilding the only church. He is greeted with disbelief by his friends, including Matty (Nancy Kulp), and outright hostility by the rest of the townsfolk, as he alone in his community had fought on the Union side. Particularly opposed to him is Yancey Huggins (Raymond Burr), who sees a threat to his iron-fisted control of the town. Fargo encounters two very different women from his past. Faded Southern belle Georgina Descrais (Allison Hayes), impoverished by the war, tries to revive their former romantic relationship, as does the local madam, Selma (an uncredited Jean Willes), but he rejects them both. Meanwhile, teenage orphan tomboy Lissy (Joanne LESS