Showdown at Abilene

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Showdown at Abilene
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Directed by Charles F. Haas
Screenplay byBerne Giler
Story byClarence Upson Young
Produced by Howard Christie
Starring Jock Mahoney
Martha Hyer
Lyle Bettger
Cinematography Irving Glassberg
Edited byRay Snyder
Music byJoseph Gershenson
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • October 3, 1956 (1956-10-03)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Showdown at Abilene is a 1956 American western film directed by Charles F. Haas and starring Jock Mahoney, Martha Hyer and Lyle Bettger. The film was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. In 1967 it was remade by Universal as Gunfight in Abilene with Bobby Darin playing the lead.

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Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged to Trask's former sweetheart and is one of the cattlemen increasingly feuding with the original farmers. Trask is persuaded to take up as sheriff again but there is something about the death of Mosely's brother in the Civil War that is haunting him.

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