Abilene Town (1946)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Edwin L. Marin

Writers:

Ernest Haycox (novel)
Harold Shumate (screenplay)

Release Date:

11 January 1946 (USA)

Genre:

Romance | Western

Plot:

Sheriff tries to stop homesteader conflicts in the West after the Civil War.

Plot Keywords:

Homesteader | Cattle | Abilene Kansas | Cowboy | Sheriff

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

Also Known As:

The Homesteaders (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #11165)

Company:

Guild Productions Inc.

Quotes:

[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...

Movie Connections:

Featured in Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000) (TV)

Soundtrack:

All You Gotta Do

poor western

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