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The Duel at Silver Creek
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Wikipedia article
'The Duel at Silver Creek' is a 1952 American Western film directed by Don Siegel; his first film in the Western genre. It starred Stephen McNally, Audie Murphy and Faith Domergue.[http://www.audiemurphy.com/movies09.htm 'The Duel at Silver Creek'] at Audie Murphy Memorial Site It was the first time Murphy had appeared in a film where he played a character who was good throughout the movie.Don Graham, 'No Name on the Bullet: The Biography of Audie Murphy', Penguin, 1989 p 228 The working titles of the film were 'Claim Jumpers' and 'Hair Trigger Kid'.p. 63 Larkins, Bob & Magers, Boyd 'The Films of Audie Murphy' McFarland, 19 Aug 2009
Plot
Luke Cromwell, aka the "Silver Kid" (Audie Murphy), loses his father to mining claim jumpers. He is deputised by Marshal Lightning Tyrone (Stephen McNally) of Silver City, who wants to defeat the claim jumpers. The two men fall for different women, Tyrone for the treacherous Opal Lacey (Faith Domergue), who is secretly in league with the claim jumpers, and Cromwell with tomboy Dusty Fargo (Susan Cabot) who pursues Lightning.
Cast
* Audie Murphy as Luke Cromwell The Silver Kid
* Faith Domergue as Opal Lacey
* Stephen McNally as Marshal Lightning Tyrone (as Stephen Mc. Nally)
* Susan Cabot as Jane "Dusty" Fargo
* Gerald Mohr as Rod Lacey
* Eugene Iglesias as Johnny Sombrero
* James Anderson as Rat Face Blake (as Kyle James)
* Walter Sande as Pete Fargo
* Lee Marvin as "Tinhorn" Burgess
* George Eldredge as Jim Ryan Bartender
* Griff Barnett as Dan 'Pop' Musik
Reception
Quentin Tarantino called it "a very well conceived and executed picture, as well as being obviously a Siegel picture."
References
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