- Destry (film)
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Destry Directed by George Marshall Produced by Stanley Rubin Written by Max Brand (novel Destry Rides Again)
Felix Jackson (story)Starring Mari Blanchard
Audie Murphy
Lyle Bettger
Thomas Mitchell
Lori Nelson
Edgar BuchananCinematography George Robinson Editing by Ted J. Kent Distributed by Universal International Pictures Release date(s) December 1, 1954 (U.S.) Running time 95 min. Country United States Language English Destry is a 1954 western starring Mari Blanchard, Audie Murphy, and Thomas Mitchell. The third and (as of 1998) final film version of Max Brand's Destry Rides Again, this 1954 version is closer to the 1939 Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart film version than it is to the Brand original. Indeed Halliwells film guide states "Almost scene-for-scene remake ...".[1] George Marshall directed both versions.
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Plot
The sheriff of a small town is shot and the crooked mayor, The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers (Edgar Buchanan), and leading crook, Phil Decker (Lyle Bettger), appoint a drunk, Reginald T. "Rags" Barnaby (Thomas Mitchell), to take the position hoping that he will be easily controlled by them. Rags announces he is to give up the drink and turns down Decker as deputy telling them he has someone else in mind, Tom Destry.
Destry (Audie Murphy) arrives on the stagecoach with great fanfare but Rags is disappointed to find out that he is a very young man and refuses to carry a gun. Destry finds out that the previous sheriff may not have died of a heart attack, as the town rumour states, while trying to resolve a land dispute over a ranch and sets about finding out how he died. This starts his quest to discover who murdered the previous town sheriff and this quest rolls together the various characters including Rags, the mayor, Decker, saloon girl Brandy (Mari Blanchard), and a young woman, Martha Phillips (Lori Nelson), who lives near town whom Destry met while riding the stagecoach into town.
The plot basically follows the same premise as the James Stewart version made years earlier.
Cast
As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified)
Actor Role Mari Blanchard Brandy, the saloon singer Audie Murphy Tom Destry, Jr., the new deputy Lyle Bettger Phil Decker, mob boss Thomas Mitchell Reginald T. 'Rags' Barnaby’, new sheriff Lori Nelson Martha Phillips Alan Hale, Jr. Jack Larson Wallace Ford Doc Curtis Mary Wickes Bessie Mae Curtis George Wallace Curly Adams Edgar Buchanan The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor Mitchell Lawrence The Professor References
External links
- Destry at the Internet Movie Database
- Destry (film) at the TCM Movie Database
Films directed by George Marshall 1910s The Committee on Credentials (1916) · Love's Lariat (1916) · A Woman's Eyes (1916) · The Devil's Own (1916) · The Man from Montana (1917) · The Midnight Flyer (1918) · The Adventures of Ruth (1919)1920s Ruth of the Rockies (1920)1930s Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) · Their First Mistake (1932) · Towed in a Hole (1932) · She Learned About Sailors (1934) · 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934) · Life Begins at Forty (1935) · Music Is Magic (1935) · The Goldwyn Follies (1938) · You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) · Destry Rides Again (1939)1940s The Ghost Breakers (1940) · When the Daltons Rode (1940) · Pot o' Gold (1941) · Texas (1941) · Valley of the Sun (1942) · The Forest Rangers (1942) · Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) · Riding High (1943) · True to Life (1943) · And the Angels Sing (1944) · Murder, He Says (1945) · Incendiary Blonde (1945) · Hold that Blonde (1945) · The Blue Dahlia (1946) · Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) · The Perils of Pauline (1947) · Variety Girl (1947) · Hazard (1948) · Tap Roots (1948) · My Friend Irma (1949)1950s Fancy Pants (1950) · Never a Dull Moment (1950) · A Millionaire for Christy (1951) · The Savage (1952) · Off Limits (1953) · Scared Stiff (1953) · Houdini (1953) · Money from Home (1953) · Red Garters (1954) · Duel in the Jungle (1954) · Destry (1954) · The Second Greatest Sex (1955) · Pillars of the Sky (1956) · Beyond Mombasa (1956) · The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) · The Sad Sack (1957) · The Sheepman (1958) · Imitation General (1958) · The Mating Game (1959) · It Started with a Kiss (1959) · The Gazebo (1959)1960s Cry for Happy (1961) · The Happy Thieves (1961) · Papa's Delicate Condition (1963) · Dark Purpose (1964) · Advance to the Rear (1964) · Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966) · Eight on the Lam (1967) · The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968) · Hook, Line & Sinker (1969)Categories:- American films
- English-language films
- 1954 films
- Western (genre) comedy films
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