Cyclone Fury

Cyclone Fury
Directed by	Ray Nazarro
Written by	Barry Shipman Ed Earl Repp
Produced by	Colbert Clark
Starring	Charles Starrett
Cinematography	Henry Freulich
Edited by	Paul Borofsky
Color process	Black and white
Production company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	August 14, 1951 (1951-08-14)
Running time	53 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Cyclone Fury is a 1951 American Western film directed by Ray Nazarro and starring Charles Starrett. ^{[1] [2]} This was the fifty-seventh of 65 films in the Durango Kid series. ^[3]

Cast

• Charles Starrett as The Durango Kid / Steve Reynolds
• Fred F. Sears as Capt. Barham
• Clayton Moore as Grat Hanlon
• Robert J. Wilke as Burco ― Henchman (as Bob Wilke)
• Merle Travis as Guitar Player
• Merle Travis' Bronco Busters as Musicians
• Smiley Burnette as Smiley Burnette

Production

A late entry in Columbia's long-running Durango Kid Western series, Cyclone Fury has perhaps the greatest scripting challenge of the series (achieved by writer Barry Shipman). In an effort to save money on production costs and shoot less film in fewer days, Columbia Pictures asked Shipman to economize on his script. Shipman took sequences from four older Durango Kid pictures, plus elements from an old scenario by Ed Earl Repp, and combined them into a new storyline, with Starrett, Smiley Burnette, and villain Clayton Moore appearing in new scenes.

References

1. "Cyclone Fury". American Film Institute . Retrieved August 3, 2016.
2. "Schine's Regent". Newark Courier-Gazette, the Marion Enterprise, Clifton Springs Press. Newark, New York. September 13, 1951. p. 14. Retrieved May 11, 2015– via NYS Historic Newspapers.
3. Blottner, Gene (2011). "The Durango Kid". Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926–1955: The Harry Cohn Years. McFarland. ISBN   9780786486724.

External links

• Cyclone Fury at IMDb
• Cyclone Fury at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films