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The Cimarron Kid
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Wikipedia article
'The Cimarron Kid' is a 1952 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Audie Murphy and Beverly Tyler.[http://www.audiemurphy.com/movies08.htm 'The Cimarron Kid'] at Audie Murphy Memorial Site
Plot
Bill Doolin (Audie Murphy) is released from jail and is going home on the train when it is held up by his boyhood friends, the Dalton Gang. Doolin finds himself accused of helping the crime and winds up an outlaw.
Cast
* Audie Murphy as Bill Doolin / the Cimarron Kid
* Beverly Tyler as Carrie Roberts
* James Best as Bitter Creek Dalton
* Yvette Duguay as Rose (as Yvette Dugay)
* John Hudson as Dynamite Dick Dalton
* Hugh O'Brian as Red Buck
* Roy Roberts as Pat Roberts
* David Bauer as Sam Swanson (as David Wolfe)
* Noah Beery Jr. as Bob Dalton
* Leif Erickson as Marshal John Sutton
* John Hubbard as George Weber
* Frank Silvera as Stacey Marshall
Production
The film was based on a story by Louis Stevens. It was assigned to producer Ted Richmond at Universal for Audie Murphy in April 1951.
It was the first Western from Budd Boetticher, who later became famous for his work in the genre.Budd Boetticher: The Last Interview
Wheeler, Winston Dixon. Film Criticism; Meadville Vol. 26, Iss. 3, (Spring 2002): 52-0_3. I became a Western director because they thought I looked like one and they thought I rode better than anyone else," said Boetticher later. "And I didnt know anything about the West. It was also the director's first film in color and his first under a long term contract with Universal Pictures.[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2006/38/boetticher/ Sean Axmaker, 'Ride Lonesome: The Career of Budd Boetticher', 'Senses of Cinema' 7 February 2006] accessed 25 June 2012
In the original script, Murphy's character died at the end of the movie, but the studio decided to change it to reflect the actor's rising popularity.Don Graham, 'No Name on the Bullet: The Biography of Audie Murphy', Penguin, 1989 p 224
The railroad scenes were filmed on the Sierra Railroad in Tuolumne County, California.
See also
* List of American films of 1952
References
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