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Showdown at Abilene

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Showdown at Abilene
Directed byCharles F. Haas
(as Charles Haas)
Screenplay byBerne Giler
Story byClarence Upson Young
Produced byHoward Christie
StarringJock Mahoney
Martha Hyer
Lyle Bettger
CinematographyIrving Glassberg
Edited byRay Snyder
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • October 1956 (1956-10)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Showdown at Abilene is a 1956 American Western film directed by Charles F. Haas (as Charles Haas) and starring Jock Mahoney, Martha Hyer and Lyle Bettger.

It was remade as Gunfight in Abilene.

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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