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Shotgun(1955)
Status: Released
Date: 1955-04-23
56%
21 Votes
Time: 1h 20m
ROPEBAIT and RIFFRAFF...hot-blooded gunman and trail town Jezebel...
Overview:
Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory's Indian commissioner until the notorious Ben Thompson slays the marshal when he tried to make an arrest. Clay turns his back on a white-collar job and his girl to pursue the gang. Picking up a bounty hunter and a beautiful half-breed woman along the way, the little band follows the trail into Apache land where the lawman discovers that the outlaws plan to sell repeating rifles to the Indians.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Allied Artists Pictures
Movie: Shotgun
Top 10 Billed Cast
Sterling Hayden
Clay Hardin
Yvonne De Carlo
Abby
Zachary Scott
Reb Carlton
Guy Prescott
Ben Thompson
Fiona Hale
Midge
Angela Greene
Aletha
Lane Chandler
Fletcher
Robert J. Wilke
Bentley (as Robert Wilke)
Paul Marion
Delgadito
John Pickard
Perez
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Overview
Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory's Indian commissioner until the notorious Ben Thompson slays the marshal when he tried to make an arrest. Clay turns his back on a white-collar job and his girl to pursue the gang. Picking up a bounty hunter and a beautiful half-breed woman along the way, the little band follows the trail into Apache land where the lawman discovers that the outlaws plan to sell repeating rifles to the Indians.
Release Date
1955-04-23
Average
5.619
Rating:
2.8 startsTagline
ROPEBAIT and RIFFRAFF...hot-blooded gunman and trail town Jezebel...
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