Cyclone Fury

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Cyclone Fury
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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
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • August 14, 1951 (1951-08-14)
Running time
53 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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]

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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.

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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.