The Duel at Silver Creek

The Duel at Silver Creek
Directed by Don Siegel
Produced by Leonard Goldstein
Written by Gerald Drayson Adams
Joseph Hoffman
Starring Audie Murphy
Faith Domergue
Stephen McNally
Susan Cabot
Gerald Mohr
Lee Marvin
Music by Hans J. Salter
Cinematography Irving Glassberg
Edited by Russell F. Schoengarth
Distributed by Universal-International
Release dates
  • August 1, 1952 (1952-08-01)
Running time
77 min.
Country United States
Language English
Box office $1.25 million (US rentals)[1]

The Duel at Silver Creek is a 1952 Western film directed by Don Siegel and starring Audie Murphy.[2] It was the first time Murphy had appeared in a film where he played a character who was good throughout the movie.[3]

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).

Cast

References

  1. 'Top Box-Office Hits of 1952', Variety, January 7, 1953
  2. The Duel at Silver Creek at Audie Murphy Memorial Site
  3. Don Graham, No Name on the Bullet: The Biography of Audie Murphy, Penguin, 1989 p 228


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