Showdown at Abilene
“The blazing story of the great Abilene range war!”
1956•NR•1h 20m•5.3•Released
Western
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.
Director
Charles F. Haas
Writer
Berne Giler
Languages
English
Studio
Universal International Pictures
Cast
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
Chuck Hayward
Roughneck (uncredited)
Production
Company
Universal International Pictures
Producer
Howard Christie
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