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Showdown at Abilene (1956)

Showdown at Abilene (1956)

Western

The blazing story of the great Abilene range war!

Release Date: 1956, October 1
Directors: Charles F. Haas
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal International Pictures, Universal International Pictures
Cast: Chuck Hayward, Ted de Corsia, Dayton Lummis, Harry Harvey, John Maxwell, Martha Hyer, David Janssen, Lyle Bettger, Robert Anderson, Jock Mahoney, Grant Williams, Lane Bradford

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.

Keywords:

sheriff saloon range war