Showdown at Abilene (1956)
1h 20m
Running Time
October 1, 1956Release Date
Showdown at Abilene (1956)
1h 20m
Running Time
October 1, 1956Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
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
Charles F. Haas
Director
Harry Harvey
Ross Bigelow (as Harry Harvey Sr.)
Berne Giler
Writer
Clarence Upson Young
Writer
Dayton Lummis
Jack Bedford
Howard Christie
Producer
Richard H. Cutting
Nelson
Irving Glassberg
Cinematographer
Robert Anderson
Sprague (as Robert G. Anderson)
John Maxwell
Frank Scovie
Media.
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Wiki.
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.