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Abilene Town (1946) -- Sheriff tries to stop homesteader conflicts in the West after the Civil War.

Overview

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6.5/10   261 votes
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Director:
Edwin L. Marin
Writers:
Ernest Haycox (novel)
Harold Shumate (screenplay)
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Release Date:
11 January 1946 (USA) more
Genre:
Romance | Western more
Plot:
Sheriff tries to stop homesteader conflicts in the West after the Civil War. full summary | add synopsis
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poor western more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Randolph Scott ... Dan Mitchell
Ann Dvorak ... Rita
Edgar Buchanan ... Sheriff 'Bravo' Trimble

Rhonda Fleming ... Sherry Balder

Lloyd Bridges ... Henry Dreiser
Helen Boyce ... Big Annie
Howard Freeman ... Ed Balder

Richard Hale ... Charlie Fair
Jack Lambert ... Jet Younger
Hank Patterson ... Doug Neil
Dick Curtis ... 'Cap' Ryker
Earl Schenck ... George Hazelhurst
Eddy Waller ... Hannaberry
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Homesteaders (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
89 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #11165)

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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...
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Featured in Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
All You Gotta Do more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful:-
poor western, 8 March 2009
3/10
Author: disdressed12 from Canada

this western/musical/comedy is not one of the best of the genre i have seen.i found it much too slow.it just plodded along to the inevitable end.i also found it disjointed.i couldn't wait for it to be over.Randolph Scott is the headliner here,and Lloyd Bridges also stars.but for my money money Edgar Buchanan is the best of the bunch.Buchanan appeared in many westerns in his day,many times providing comic relief,as he does in this picture.i also liked Ann Dvorak as Rita.otherwise,though,i can't think of much to recommend this movie.the movie is based on a novel by Ernest Haycock,who also wrote the novel Stagecoach,which was mad into a movie of the same name in 1939,and remade in 1966 and again in 1986.The 1939 version of Stagecoach,is in my mind,one of the best movies ever made.anyway.as for Abilene town,my vote is a 3/10

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