Hell Bent for Leather is a 1960 American CinemaScope Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Audie Murphy, Felicia Farr, Stephen McNally and Robert Middleton.Hell Bent for Leather at Audie Murphy Memorial Site The film was based on the 1959 novel Outlaw Marshal by Ray Hogan and filmed on location in the Alabama Hills of Lone Pine, California.
Plot Clay Santell has his horse stolen and stops in the town of Sutterville. He is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers, and is handed over to Marshal Harry Deckett.
Deckett knows the truth but decides to kill Clay and pass him off as the real Travers to enhance his reputation and collect the reward money. Clay escapes and takes a woman hostage until he can prove his innocence.
Cast Audie Murphy as Clay Felicia Farr as Janet Stephen McNally as Deckett Robert Middleton as Ambrose James Westmoreland as Moon Jan Merlin as Travers Herbert Rudley as Perrick Malcolm Atterbury as Gamble Joseph Ruskin as Shad Allan Lane as Kelsey John Qualen as Old Ben Eddie Little Sky as William Steve Gravers as Grover Beau Gentry as Stone Bob Steele as Jared
Production The film was the first of seven low-budget Westerns Audie Murphy made for producer Gordon Kay at Universal. They would be shot in 18–20 days at a budget of around $500,000, and normally feature only three main roles: the hero (played by Murphy), female lead, and villain.Don Graham, No Name on the Bullet: The Biography of Audie Murphy, Penguin, 1989 p 291 The other films were: Seven Ways from Sundown (1960) Posse from Hell (1961) Six Black Horses (1962) Showdown (1963) Bullet for a Badman (1964) Gunpoint (1966)
See also List of American films of 1960
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