Showdown at Abilene is a 1956 American western film directed by Charles F. Haas and starring Jock Mahoney, Martha Hyer and Lyle Bettger. The film was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. In 1967 it was remade by Universal as Gunfight in Abilene with Bobby Darin playing the lead.
| Showdown at Abilene | |
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| Directed by | Charles F. Haas |
| Screenplay by | Berne Giler |
| Story by | Clarence Upson Young |
| Produced by | Howard Christie |
| Starring | Jock Mahoney Martha Hyer Lyle Bettger |
| Cinematography | Irving Glassberg |
| Edited by | Ray Snyder |
| Music by | Joseph Gershenson |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
editJim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged to Trask's former sweetheart and is one of the cattlemen increasingly feuding with the original farmers. Trask is persuaded to take up as sheriff again but there is something about the death of Mosely's brother in the Civil War that is haunting him.
Cast
edit- Jock Mahoney as Jim Trask
- Martha Hyer as Peggy Bigelow
- Lyle Bettger as Dave Mosely
- David Janssen as Verne Ward
- Grant Williams as Chip Tomlin
- Ted de Corsia as Dan Claudius
- Harry Harvey as Ross Bigelow
- Dayton Lummis as Jack Bedford
- Richard H. Cutting as Nelson
- Robert Anderson as Sprague (as Robert G. Anderson)
- John Maxwell as Frank Scovie
- Lane Bradford as Loop
See also
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