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Showdown at Abilene is a 1956 American Western film directed by Charles F. Haas (as Charles Haas) and starring Jock Mahoney, Martha Hyer and Lyle Bettger.

Showdown at Abilene
Directed by	Charles F. Haas (as Charles Haas)
Screenplay by	Berne Giler
Story by	Clarence Upson Young
Produced by	Howard Christie
Starring	Jock Mahoney Martha Hyer Lyle Bettger
Cinematography	Irving Glassberg
Edited by	Ray Snyder
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	October 1956 (1956-10)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

It was remade as Gunfight in Abilene.

Plot

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.

Cast

• Jock Mahoney as Jim Trask
• Martha Hyer as Peggy Bigelow
• Lyle Bettger as Dave Mosely
• David Janssen as Verne Ward
• Grant Williams as Chip Tomlin
• Ted de Corsia as Dan Claudius
• Harry Harvey as Ross Bigelow (as Harry Harvey)
• Dayton Lummis as Jack Bedford
• Richard H. Cutting as Nelson
• Robert Anderson as Sprague (as Robert G. Anderson)
• John Maxwell as Frank Scovie
• Lane Bradford as Loop

See also

• List of American films of 1956

External links

• Showdown at Abilene at IMDb
• Showdown at Abilene at the TCM Movie Database

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