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Showdown at Abilene

5.2 80 mins Western   1956
Universal International Pictures  
Director(s): Charles F. Haas

Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged to Trask's former sweetheart and is one of the cattlemen increasingly feuding with the original farmers. Trask is persuaded to take up as sheriff again but there is something about the death of Mosely's brother in the Civil War that is haunting him.

Casts of Showdown at Abilene

Jock Mahoney

as Jim Trask

Martha Hyer

as Peggy Bigelow

Lyle Bettger

as Dave Mosely

David Janssen

as Verne Ward

Grant Williams

as Chip Tomlin

Ted de Corsia

as Dan Claudius

Harry Harvey

as Ross Bigelow (as Harry Harvey Sr.)

Dayton Lummis

as Jack Bedford

Richard H. Cutting

as Nelson

Robert Anderson

as Sprague (as Robert G. Anderson)

John Maxwell

as Frank Scovie

Lane Bradford

as Loop

Chuck Hayward

as Roughneck (uncredited)

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