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Frank McDonald (Director) (2009)' Reviewed in Canada on June 14, 2011. Also in the cast are Ben Cooper, John Hubbard, Jan Merlin, Adam Williams, Damian O’Flynn, Mort Mills, Susan Seaforth, William Wellman Jr, John Milford, Michael T Mikler, Laurie Mitchell and Tim Graham. 4.0 out of 5 stars 'Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963). Thomas Browne Henry plays Mike O’Bryant, Chief of the National Detective Agency, who arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed as part of the effort to round up the gang.ĭeForest Kelley (Bones in Star Trek) appears in a small but key role as Amos Troop, leader of the outlaw gang.

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On the plus side, however, it is a reasonable colour production for low budget studio Allied Artists, the cast is interesting and useful, McDonald manages to inject a little of both dynamism and tension into the familiar proceedings, and it builds to the excellent climactic gunfight.Ĭolleen Miller provides the glamour as lovely saloon keeper Abbie Stevens. Murphy is stalwart and very watchable, but little action, a fairly bland screenplay by Edward Bernd and a cast lacking big stars all add up to some rather feeble Western action entertainment. Gunfight at Comanche Creek is a 1963 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Audie Murphy. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect.

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The gunfight at the end of the film is well worth waiting for.Gunfight at Comanche Creek ** (1963, Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Colleen Miller, John Hubbard) – Classic Movie Review 8258ĭirector Frank McDonald’s 1964 Gunfight at Comanche Creek is a remake of the unspectacular George Montgomery Western Last of the Bad Men (1957), this time starring Audie Murphy as the good guy, agent Bob Gifford, who is jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery and works his way infiltrated into a murdering outlaw gang as an undercover detective, and of course eventually brings them to justice. Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. More Western, Detectives and Thieves DVDs available DVD Empire. Staring Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Jan Merlin and DeForest Kelley. Lobby Card FFF-28254 - Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Colleen Miller, DeForest Kelley - Western. Gunfight At Comanche Creek on DVD (883316199404) from Warner Bros. First they bust a convicted man out of jail, and then they force him to commit a string of. Gunfight at Comanche Creek 1963 Vintage Original Lobby Card U.S.

Audie has to rely a lot on his wits to keep from being discovered. In 1875, a band of brutal bandits craft a dastardly scheme. Colorado 1875: when detective Bob Gifford is assigned to infiltrate a ruthless. Gunfight At Comanche Creek was done very well for low budget studio Allied Artists and goes at a real nice pace and maintains suspense throughout. Western Drama 1964 Frank McDonald 90 mins U. Not at all saying however that some of his westerns weren't good.

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After failing with a television series Whispering Smith, as so many of his fellow players did, Murphy kept doing westerns of varying quality until the end of the Sixties and the end of the B westerns which played the bottom half of double bills. Murphy himself was getting older and could no longer be cast as callow western youths as he was early in his career. If he hadn't signed for Star Trek, Kelley might well have kept in this career path. All titles, Director, Screenplay, Cast, Cinematography, Music, Production Design, Producer, Editing.

Leonard McCoy of the star ship Enterprise, DeForest Kelley did a lot of western roles where he was mostly a really nasty villain. One undercover detective has already been killed for the reward on his head so Audie has to watch himself from all angles.

He just breaks wanted criminals out of jail gets the use of their service and then kills them for the reward which has gone up in value like a stock in the bull market. Kelley has a unique recruiting method to supplement the hard core of his gang for jobs. The film has a plot not dissimilar to that of the great urban noir drama A Street With No Name. The events leading up to the Gunfight At Comanche Creek find Audie Murphy working as an undercover detective who has infiltrated an outlaw gang led by DeForest Kelley.

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