Showdown at Abilene explained

Showdown at Abilene
Director:Charles F. Haas
Producer:Howard Christie
Screenplay:Berne Giler
Story:Clarence Upson Young
Starring:Jock Mahoney
Martha Hyer
Lyle Bettger
Cinematography:Irving Glassberg
Music:Joseph Gershenson
Editing:Ray Snyder
Distributor:Universal Pictures
Runtime:77 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English

Showdown at Abilene is a 1956 American western film directed by Charles F. Haas and starring Jock Mahoney, Martha Hyer and Lyle Bettger. The film was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. In 1967 it was remade by Universal as Gunfight in Abilene with Bobby Darin playing the lead.

Plot

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.

Cast

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