Abilene Town

"Ablaze with guns and guts and glory!"

Jan 11 1946 Approved 1h 29m
Romance, Western

Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from arising between the two factions. However…

Plot

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

Ernest Haycox, Harold Shumate

Directed by

Edwin L. Marin

Cast

Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

United Artists, Guild Productions Inc.

Languages

English

Awards

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1,391
Average Rating
6.2 out of 10
Metascore
NA
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