Red Sundown | |
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Directed by | Jack Arnold |
Screenplay by | Martin Berkeley |
Based on | Back Trail by Lewis B. Patten |
Produced by | Albert Zugsmith |
Starring |
Rory Calhoun Martha Hyer Dean Jagger |
Cinematography | William E. Snyder |
Edited by | Edward Curtiss |
Music by | Hans J. Salter |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Universal-International Pictures |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Red Sundown is a 1956 American Technicolor western film directed by Jack Arnold and starring Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer and Dean Jagger. [1] It was produced and distributed by Universal-International Pictures. [2] It is based on the 1956 novel Back Trail by Lewis B. Patten and had the working title Decision At Durango.
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.