Showdown at Abilene

Showdown at Abilene

5.3IMDb Score
Released:1956-10-01
Genre:Western
Duration:80 min
Director:Charles F. Haas
Actors:Jock Mahoney, Martha Hyer, Lyle Bettger, David Janssen, Grant Williams
Production:Universal International Pictures

Overview:

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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