Red Sundown is a 1956 American Technicolor Western film directed by Jack Arnold and starring Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer and Dean Jagger.Pitts p.269 It was produced and distributed by Universal-International Pictures.Dick p.162 It is based on the 1956 novel Back Trail by Lewis B. Patten and had the working title Decision At Durango.
Plot Alec Longmire (Rory Calhoun), a gunfighter, decides to change his ways after nearly losing his life. He reforms, becoming a deputy to Jade Murphy (Dean Jagger), an honest sheriff trapped between warring farmers and cattlemen. He also falls in love with the sheriff's daughter Caroline (Martha Hyer) who despises gunslingers.
Cast Rory Calhoun as Longmire Martha Hyer as Caroline Dean Jagger as Jade Murphy Robert Middleton as Rufus Henshaw Grant Williams as Chet Swann Lita Baron as Maria James Millican as Bud Purvis Trevor Bardette as Sam Baldwin Leo Gordon as Rod Zellman David Kasday as Hughie Clore
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Bibliography Dick, Bernard F. City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Press of Kentucky, 2021. Pitts, Michael R. Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films. McFarland, 2012.
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