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Showdown at Abilene
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Showdown at Abilene

Oct 1, 1956
1h 20m
★ 5.3

The blazing story of the great Abilene range war!

Overview

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.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Universal International Pictures

Cast

Jock Mahoney

Jim Trask

Jock Mahoney

Martha Hyer

Peggy Bigelow

Martha Hyer

Lyle Bettger

Dave Mosely

Lyle Bettger

David Janssen

Verne Ward

David Janssen

Grant Williams

Chip Tomlin

Grant Williams

Ted de Corsia

Dan Claudius

Ted de Corsia

Harry Harvey

Ross Bigelow (as Harry Harvey Sr.)

Harry Harvey

Dayton Lummis

Jack Bedford

Dayton Lummis

Richard H. Cutting

Nelson

Richard H. Cutting

Robert Anderson

Sprague (as Robert G. Anderson)

Robert Anderson

John Maxwell

Frank Scovie

John Maxwell

Lane Bradford

Loop

Lane Bradford

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