Showdown at Abilene (1956)
The blazing story of the great Abilene range war!
Jim 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.
- Date of release
- 1956-10-01
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- Charles F. Haas
Casting
- Jock Mahoney — Jim Trask
- Martha Hyer — Peggy Bigelow
- Lyle Bettger — Dave Mosely
- David Janssen — Verne Ward
- Grant Williams — Chip Tomlin
- Ted de Corsia — Dan Claudius
- Harry Harvey — Ross Bigelow (as Harry Harvey Sr.)
- Dayton Lummis — Jack Bedford
- Richard H. Cutting — Nelson
- Robert Anderson — Sprague (as Robert G. Anderson)
- John Maxwell — Frank Scovie
- Lane Bradford — Loop
Interesting facts
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.
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