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03/02/1967 Western 1h 26m
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The time: NOON! The odds: DESPERATE! The result: MEMORABLE!

Overview

Fighting in the Civil War a man accidently kills his friend. Returning to Abilene after the war he finds his former sweetheart about to marry the brother of the man he killed. To pay his debt he not only refuses to win her back but takes the job of Sheriff, a job he doesn't want, when the brother asks him. Still haunted by the killing he refuses to carry a gun. But there is trouble between the ranchers and the farmers and when he finds the brother murdered he straps on a gun and heads after the killer.

  1. William Hale

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Bobby Darin

    Cal Wayne

  2. Emily Banks

    Amy Martin

  3. Leslie Nielsen

    Grant Evers

  4. Donnelly Rhodes

    Joe Slade

  5. Don Galloway

    Ward Kent

  6. Frank McGrath

    Ned Martin

  7. Michael Sarrazin

    Cord Decker

  8. Don Dubbins

    Rod Sprague

  9. William Phipps

    Frank Norton

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2017-04-26
Amy. If I run now I'm finished.

Gunfight in Abilene is directed by William Hale and adapted to screenplay by John Black and Bernie Giler from the story "Gun Shy" written by Clarence Upson Young. It stars Bobby Darin, Emily Banks, Leslie Nielsen and Don Galloway. Music is by Darin, with Joseph Gershenson overseeing things, and cinematography is by Maury Gertsman. Out of Universal Pictures it's a Technicolor/Techniscope production.

Young's story had already made it to the big screen in 1956 as Showdown at Abilene, where Giler also adapted the screenplay and Howard Christie again produced. ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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