Gunfight in Abilene

“The time: NOON! The odds: DESPERATE! The result: MEMORABLE!”

6.5(13)19671h 26m

Western

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.

Director

William Hale

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Cast

Bobby Darin

Cal Wayne

Emily Banks

Amy Martin

Leslie Nielsen

Grant Evers

Donnelly Rhodes

Joe Slade

Don Galloway

Ward Kent

Frank McGrath

Ned Martin

Michael Sarrazin

Cord Decker

Don Dubbins

Rod Sprague

William Phipps

Frank Norton

Barbara Werle

Leann

Johnny Seven

Loop

William Mims

Ed Scovie

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1 review

John Chard

9y ago

4.0

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...