Riding Shotgun (film)

Riding Shotgun
Directed by	Andre DeToth
Written by	Thomas W. Blackburn
Produced by	Ted Sherdeman
Starring	Randolph Scott Wayne Morris Joan Weldon
Cinematography	Bert Glennon
Edited by	Rudi Fehr
Music by	David Buttolph
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	April 1, 1954 (1954-04-01)
Running time	73 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Riding Shotgun is a 1954 western film directed by Andre DeToth, starring Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris and Joan Weldon. The film was based on the 1942 short story Riding Solo by Kenneth Taylor Perkins. The production is unusual in that Scott narrates his inner thoughts at crucial moments in the action.

Plot

Stagecoach guard Larry Delong is ambushed by a gang of outlaws associated with a man he's searching for, Dan Marady, who murdered Delong's sister and nephew. But when he returns to the town of Deep Water, nearly everyone there believes that Delong was involved in the holdup, in which the stage driver was killed.

With no townspeople other than Orissa Flynn, his sweetheart, and Doc Winkler heeding his warnings that Marady's men are coming to rob the town, Delong is forced to take refuge in a cantina. A lynch mob forms, with deputy Tub Murphy trying to hold them off until the sheriff's posse returns.

Marady's men, including an accomplice, Pinto, rob the bank while the villagers are distracted. Delong escapes through an attic and sabotage the getaway horses of Malady's gang. A shootout results in Marady mistakenly believing, fatally, that Delong is out of bullets.

Cast

• Randolph Scott as Larry Delong
• Wayne Morris as Deputy Sheriff Tub Murphy
• Joan Weldon as Orissa Flynn
• Joe Sawyer as Tom Biggert
• James Millican as Dan Marady
• Charles Bronson as Pinto
• James Bell as Doc Winkler
• Fritz Feld as Fritz

External links

• Riding Shotgun at IMDb
• Riding Shotgun at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Riding Shotgun at AllMovie
• Riding Shotgun at the TCM Movie Database