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Showdown at Abilene

1956 · 1h 20m · Western · United States of America

The blazing story of the great Abilene range war!

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.

Directed by
Charles F. Haas
Written by
Berne Giler
Story by
Clarence Upson Young
Starring
Jock Mahoney, Martha Hyer, Lyle Bettger, David Janssen
6.0Smart score

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