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Showdown at Abilene(1956)
Status: Released
Date: 1956-10-01
52%
9 Votes
Time: 1h 20m
The blazing story of the great Abilene range war!
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
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United States of America
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Movie: Showdown at Abilene
Top 10 Billed Cast
Jock Mahoney
Jim Trask
Martha Hyer
Peggy Bigelow
Lyle Bettger
Dave Mosely
David Janssen
Verne Ward
Grant Williams
Chip Tomlin
Ted de Corsia
Dan Claudius
Harry Harvey
Ross Bigelow (as Harry Harvey Sr.)
Dayton Lummis
Jack Bedford
Richard H. Cutting
Nelson
Robert Anderson
Sprague (as Robert G. Anderson)
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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.
Release Date
1956-10-01
Average
5.2
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The blazing story of the great Abilene range war!
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