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Abilene Town (1946)Sheriff tries to stop homesteader conflicts in the West after the Civil War. Director:Edwin L. Marin |
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Title: Abilene Town (1946)
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| Randolph Scott | ... |
Dan Mitchell
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| Ann Dvorak | ... |
Rita
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| Edgar Buchanan | ... |
Sheriff 'Bravo' Trimble
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| Rhonda Fleming | ... |
Sherry Balder
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| Lloyd Bridges | ... |
Henry Dreiser
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Helen Boyce | ... |
Big Annie
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| Howard Freeman | ... |
Ed Balder
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Charlie Fair
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Jack Lambert | ... |
Jet Younger
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Hank Patterson | ... |
Doug Neil
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Dick Curtis | ... |
'Cap' Ryker
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Earl Schenck | ... |
George Hazelhurst
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Eddy Waller | ... |
Hannaberry
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In the years following the Civil War, the town of Abilene, Kansas is poised on the brink of an explosive confrontation. A line has been drawn down the center of the town where the homesteaders and the cattlemen have come to a very uneasy truce. The delicate peace is inadvertantly shattered when a group of new homesteaders lay down their stakes on the cattlemen's side of town, upsetting the delicate balance that had existed thus far and sparking an all-out war between the farmers, who want the land tamed and property lines drawn, and the cowboys, who want the prairies to be open for their cattle to roam. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
11 January 1946 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Homesteaders See more »Filming Locations:
Agoura Ranch, Agoura, California, USACompany Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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Narrator: [opening narration] Five years after the end of the Civil War, a thousand-mile cattle trail stretched from the plains of Texas to the railroad depots in Kansas. For ninety grueling days, through dust, heat, flies, loneliness, cowboys pushed Texas cattle northward on the Abilene Trail at an average speed of three quarters of a mile an hour toward Abilene, Kansas where raw-bred Southern beef could be turned into hard, Eastern cash. Abilene was the end of the trail, the end of the ...
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Written by Fred Spielman and Kermit Goell
Arranged by Jack Elliott
Performed by Ann Dvorak
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[first lines]Narrator: [opening narration] Five years after the end of the Civil War, a thousand-mile cattle trail stretched from the plains of Texas to the railroad depots in Kansas. For ninety grueling days, through dust, heat, flies, loneliness, cowboys pushed Texas cattle northward on the Abilene Trail at an average speed of three quarters of a mile an hour toward Abilene, Kansas where raw-bred Southern beef could be turned into hard, Eastern cash. Abilene was the end of the trail, the end of the ...
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"I Love Out Here in the West"Written by Fred Spielman and Kermit Goell
Arranged by Jack Elliott
Performed by Ann Dvorak
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Although a lot of other westerns can rightly be considered superior, this movie is fine example of the period. Randolph Scott turns in a typically good performance, and really keeps this film going. Best seen as a view of an old time western, but good entertainment anyways.