Gunfight in Abilene poster

Gunfight in Abilene( 1967)

TV-MAWestern
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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Bobby Darin

      Cal Wayne

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      Emily Banks

      Amy Martin

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      Leslie Nielsen

      Grant Evers

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      Donnelly Rhodes

      Joe Slade

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      Don Galloway

      Ward Kent

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      Frank McGrath

      Ned Martin

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      Michael Sarrazin

      Cord Decker

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      Don Dubbins

      Rod Sprague

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      William Phipps

      Frank Norton

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      Barbara Werle

      Leann

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      Johnny Seven

      Loop

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      William Mims

      Ed Scovie

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      James McCallion

      Smoky Staub

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      Ross Hagen

      Lt. Faron

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      Myron Healey

      Ingles

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      Don Ross

      Moore

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      Jim Goodwin

      Rebel Soldier

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      John Findlater

      Rebel Soldier

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    A review by John Chard

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    Written by John Chard on Wed Apr 26 2017
    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. T...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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