Gunfight at Comanche Creek is a 1963 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Audie Murphy.[1][2]
Plot
A gang of Colorado bank robbers led by Amos Troop uses a technique where they break prisoners out of jail, use them to commit crimes, then later kill them to collect the reward. A detective, Gifford, goes undercover with the gang to bring them to justice.
Saloon owner Abbie Stevens takes a liking to Gifford while he infiltrates the gang. So does a young outlaw, Kid Carter, who goes to the town's marshal to get help for Gifford, only to discover the marshal's actually the ringleader of the gang. Help arrives in the nick of time; the marshal and Troop are arrested and the rest killed in a shootout.
Cast
- Audie Murphy as Bob Gifford aka Judd Tanner
- Ben Cooper as Carter
- Colleen Miller as Abbie Stevens
- De Forest Kelley as Amos Troop
- Jan Merlin as Nielson
- Adam Williams as Jed Hayden
- Susan Seaforth as Jamie
- Mort Mills as Ben Brady
- John Hubbard as Marshal Shearer
- John Milford as Bill Peters
- Michael Mikler as Rene Waller
- Thomas Browne Henry as Mike O'Bryant
- William Wellman Jr. as Day
- Laurie Mitchell as Tina Neville
- Tim Graham as Stage Driver
- Eddie Quillan as Hotel Clerk
References
- ^ Gunfight at Comanche Creek at Audie Murphy Memorial Site
- ^ p. 194 Larkins, Bob & Magers, Boyd The Films of Audie Murphy McFarland, 19 Aug. 2009
External links
- Gunfight at Comanche Creek at IMDb
- Gunfight at Comanche Creek at the TCM Movie Database
- Gunfight at Comanche Creek at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Review of film at Variety