Gunfight in Abilene

"The time: NOON! The odds: DESPERATE! The result: MEMORABLE!"

Mar 1 1967 Approved 1h 26m
Western

Fighting in the Civil War a man accidently kills his friend. Returning to Abilene after the war he finds his former sweetheart about to marry the brother of the man he killed. To pay his debt he not only refuses to win her back but takes the job of Sheriff, a job he doesn't want, when the brother asks him. Still haunted by the killing he refuses to carry a gun. But there is trouble between the ranchers and the farmers and when he finds the brother murdered he straps on a gun and heads after the killer.

Plot

Fighting in the Civil War a man accidently kills his friend. Returning to Abilene after the war he finds his former sweetheart about to marry the brother of the man he killed. To pay his debt he not only refuses to win her back but takes the job of Sheriff, a job he doesn't want, when the brother asks him. Still haunted by the killing he refuses to carry a gun. But there is trouble between the ranchers and the farmers and when he finds the brother murdered he straps on a gun and heads after the killer.

Written by

Berne Giler, John D.F. Black, Clarence Upson Young

Directed by

William Hale

Cast

Bobby Darin, Emily Banks, Leslie Nielsen

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

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