Riding Shotgun (film)
| Riding Shotgun | |
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Wayne Morris Joan Weldon | |
| Cinematography | Bert Glennon |
| Edited by | Rudi Fehr |
| Music by | David Buttolph |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.4 million[1] |
Riding Shotgun is a 1954 American
Plot
Stagecoach guard Larry Delong is ambushed by a gang of outlaws associated with Dan Marady, the man who murdered his sister and nephew. Delong has been searching for Marady, intending to kill him. When he returns to the town of Deep Water, Delong discovers that nearly everyone there believes he was involved in a holdup of the stage on which he had been the guard. The robbery resulted in the deaths of the stage driver and of the man who sat in for Delong.
With no one other than Orissa Flynn, his sweetheart, and Doc Winkler heeding his warnings that Marady's men are coming to rob the town, Delong is forced to take refuge in a cantina. A lynch mob forms, with deputy Tub Murphy trying to hold them off until the sheriff's posse returns.
Marady's men, including an accomplice, Pinto, rob the bank while the townspeople are distracted. Delong escapes through an attic and sabotages the getaway horses of Malady's gang. A shootout results in Marady mistakenly believing, fatally, that Delong is out of bullets.
Cast
- Randolph Scott as Larry Delong
- Wayne Morrisas Deputy Sheriff Tub Murphy
- Joan Weldon as Orissa Flynn
- Joe Sawyer as Tom Biggert
- James Millican as Dan Marady
- Charles Buchinskyas Pinto
- James Bell as Doc Winkler
- Fritz Feld as Fritz
References
- ^ "1954 Box Office Champs". Variety Weekly. January 5, 1955. p. 59. - figures are rentals in the US and Canada
External links
- Riding Shotgun at IMDb
- Riding Shotgun at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Riding Shotgun at AllMovie
- Riding Shotgun at the TCM Movie Database
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