Gunfighters of Abilene * (1959, Buster Crabbe, Barton MacLane, Judith Ames) – Classic Movie Review 11,620

Director Edward L Cahn’s 1959 black and white Western film Gunfighters of Abilene stars Larry Buster Crabbe, Barton MacLane and Judith Ames.

Avenging wronged hero, gunfighter Kip Tanner (Crabbe) battles rancher Seth Heinline (MacLane), the villainous land baron who has had his brother killed in a lynching, in this familiar Western, with both players going through the motions of their comfortable acts with some zest.

Also in the cast are Arthur Space, Eugenia Paul, Lee Farr, Russell Thorson, Reed Howes, Boyd ‘Red’ Morgan, and Hank Patterson.

It is written by Orville H Hampton.

It is made for producer Robert E Kent’s Vogue Pictures Productions and released through United Artists.

It runs just 66 minutes.

Buster Crabbe won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-meter freestyle swimming, later playing the top three syndicated comic-strip heroes of the 1930s: Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.

The cast are Buster Crabbe as Kip Tanner, Barton MacLane as Seth Heinline, Judith Ames as Alice, Eugenia Paul as Raquel, Lee Farr as Jud, Russell Thorson as Wilkinson, Arthur Space as Rigley, Reed Howes, Boyd ‘Red’ Morgan, and Hank Patterson.

It was released in London on 27 September 1959 and in the US on 1 January 1960.

Gunfighters of Abilene is directed by Edward L Cahn, runs 66 minutes, is made by Robert E Kent Productions  [Vogue Pictures], is released by United Artists, is written by Orville H Hampton, is shot in black and white by Maury Gertsman, is produced by Edward Small (executive) and Robert E Kent, and is scored by Paul Dunlap.

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