Red Sundown | |
Director: | Jack Arnold |
Producer: | Albert Zugsmith |
Based On: | Back Trail by Lewis B. Patten |
Screenplay: | Martin Berkeley |
Starring: | Rory Calhoun Martha Hyer Dean Jagger |
Music: | Hans J. Salter |
Cinematography: | William E. Snyder |
Editing: | Edward Curtiss |
Color Process: | Technicolor |
Studio: | Universal-International Pictures |
Distributor: | Universal-International Pictures |
Runtime: | 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.