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Directed by | Frederick de Cordova |
Screenplay by | William Sackheim |
Story by | William Sackheim |
Produced by | Ted Richmond |
Starring | Audie Murphy Joan Evans |
Cinematography | Charles P. Boyle |
Edited by | Milton Carruth |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Universal International Pictures |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.1 million (US) [1] |
Column South is a 1953 American Western film directed by Frederick de Cordova and starring Audie Murphy and Joan Evans. [2]
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