Shotgun

Shotgun (1955)

ROPEBAIT and RIFFRAFF...hot-blooded gunman and trail town Jezebel...

Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory's Indian commissioner until the notorious Ben Thompson slays the marshal when he tried to make an arrest. Clay turns his back on a white-collar job and his girl to pursue the gang. Picking up a bounty hunter and a beautiful half-breed woman along the way, the little band follows the trail into Apache land where the lawman discovers that the outlaws plan to sell repeating rifles to the Indians.

Date of release
1955-04-23
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Western
Director
Lesley Selander

Casting

Interesting facts

Shotgun is a 1955 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Sterling Hayden, Yvonne De Carlo and Zachary Scott.

Production

It was based on a story written by actor Rory Calhoun. Producer John Champion tried to get Calhoun in the movie but Universal Pictures would not lend him out. Filming took place in Sedona, Arizona. Yvonne De Carlo wrote in her memoirs that the film was "hardly worth mentioning" except that she once had a crush on her co-star Sterling Hayden and that this was the film where she met stunt man Bob Morgan, who became her husband.

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