man without a star have to be one film the former issur danielovitch must surely wish he could erase from his resume . douglas play a neer do well ranch hand who end up switch side during a range war among two big cattle ranch . jeanne crain be the bos lady of the ranch he start out on and and you can almost feel the beginning of the big valley in this largely awful western from the 1950s . outfit in stylish and form fitting shirt and douglas be simply terrible a the conflicted cowpoke . talk about miscasting . crain isn not bad a the bos lady and but she no barbara stanwyck . a veritable army of familiar support player include jay c. flippen can barely keep this turkey afloat . the script stink and the direction be aimless and the cinematography be waste . if this be the kind of movie intend to keep viewer away from their tv and i can not imagine it succeed in do so even though i understand it be a box office hit in it time .