- Gunfight In Abilene
Infobox Film
name = Gunfight In Abilene
image_size = 200px
caption = Film Poster
director =William Hale
producer =Howard Christie
writer =John D.F. Black (Screenwriter)Bernie Giler (screenwriter)Clarence Upson Young (novel)
narrator =
starring =Bobby Darin Emily Banks Leslie Nielsen Don Galloway
music =Bobby Darin
cinematography =Maury Gertsman
editing =Gene Palmer
distributor =Universal
released = March 1967
runtime = 86 Min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
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followed_by =
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amg_id = 94053
imdb_id = 0061738Gunfight In Abilene is a 1967 Western, it's the second film based on the book
Gun Shy fromClarence Upson Young .Plot
While Fighting in the Civil War Cal Wayne (
Bobby Darin ) accidentally kills his friend. When he returns to Abilene after the war he finds his former sweetheart Amy Martin (Emily Banks ) about to marry the brother of the friend he accidentally 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 asks him. Still haunted by killing his friend he refuses to carry a gun. But he has to use one eventually because 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.Cast
Bobby Darin : Cal Wayne
Emily Banks : Amy MartinLeslie Nielsen : Grant EversDonnelly Rhodes : Joe SladeDon Galloway : Ward KentFrank McGrath : Ned MartinMichael Sarrazin : Cord DeckerBarbara Werle : Leann
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