Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
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Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend is a 1957
Western
film directed by Richard L. Bare and starring Randolph Scott
, James Garner
and Angie Dickinson
. This was the final film that Scott made with Warner Bros.
), and cavalry troopers Sgt. John Maitland (James Garner
) and Pvt. Wilbur Clegg (Gordon Jones) are on a mission to find out who sold faulty ammunition to a cavalry troop that was commanded by Devlin’s brother. The ammo caused the troop to be massacred by Sioux Indians.
On the way, they manage to get their uniforms stolen, but are given spare clothes by Quaker brethren. Disguised as Quakers, they trace the defective ammunition to Medicine Bend where local businessman Ep Clark (James Craig
) is forcing local traders out of business with a combination of threats and undercutting prices with faulty goods.
Maitland and Clegg infiltrate Clark’s business by taking jobs at his store. Clark and his cohorts are robbed and the money finds its way back to the locals from whom it was originally extorted.
Clark, now suspicious of the three strangers in town, tries to lure Devlin into a trap, but fails. Clark’s scheming is uncovered and Devlin prevents him supplying the territory with faulty guns and ammunition.
1957 in film
The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue-Awards:...
Western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
film directed by Richard L. Bare and starring Randolph Scott
Randolph Scott
Randolph Scott was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in a variety of genres, including social dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals , adventure tales, war films, and even a few...
, James Garner
James Garner
James Garner is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades...
and Angie Dickinson
Angie Dickinson
Angie Dickinson is an American actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films, including Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven, Dressed to Kill and Pay It Forward, and starred on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman.-Early life:Dickinson, the second of...
. This was the final film that Scott made with Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
Plot synopsis
Captain Buck Devlin (Randolph ScottRandolph Scott
Randolph Scott was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in a variety of genres, including social dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals , adventure tales, war films, and even a few...
), and cavalry troopers Sgt. John Maitland (James Garner
James Garner
James Garner is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades...
) and Pvt. Wilbur Clegg (Gordon Jones) are on a mission to find out who sold faulty ammunition to a cavalry troop that was commanded by Devlin’s brother. The ammo caused the troop to be massacred by Sioux Indians.
On the way, they manage to get their uniforms stolen, but are given spare clothes by Quaker brethren. Disguised as Quakers, they trace the defective ammunition to Medicine Bend where local businessman Ep Clark (James Craig
James Craig (actor)
James Craig was an American actor.After graduating from the Rice Institute, Craig began appearing in films in 1937, most often in B-movies and serials...
) is forcing local traders out of business with a combination of threats and undercutting prices with faulty goods.
Maitland and Clegg infiltrate Clark’s business by taking jobs at his store. Clark and his cohorts are robbed and the money finds its way back to the locals from whom it was originally extorted.
Clark, now suspicious of the three strangers in town, tries to lure Devlin into a trap, but fails. Clark’s scheming is uncovered and Devlin prevents him supplying the territory with faulty guns and ammunition.
Cast
- Randolph ScottRandolph ScottRandolph Scott was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in a variety of genres, including social dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals , adventure tales, war films, and even a few...
- Capt. Buck Devlin - James CraigJames Craig (actor)James Craig was an American actor.After graduating from the Rice Institute, Craig began appearing in films in 1937, most often in B-movies and serials...
- Ep Clark - Angie DickinsonAngie DickinsonAngie Dickinson is an American actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films, including Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven, Dressed to Kill and Pay It Forward, and starred on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman.-Early life:Dickinson, the second of...
- Priscilla King - Dani Crayne - Nell Garrison
- James GarnerJames GarnerJames Garner is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades...
- Sgt. John Maitland - Gordon Jones - Pvt. Wilbur Clegg
- Trevor BardetteTrevor BardetteTrevor Bardette was an American film actor.He made over 172 movies and seventy-two TV appearances in his career. Bardette appeared in several memorable episodes in Adventures of Superman. In the 1951 show, The Human Bomb, he played the sinister title character...
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- Harry HarveyHarry Harvey (actor)Harry Harvey was an American actor.- Career :Born in Indian Territory, U.S.. Was a film character actor, he has more 300 appeared in television series and movies...
- Elam King - Robert Warwick - Brother Abraham
- Richard BellisRichard BellisRichard Bellis is notable as an Emmy Award winning composer for the mini-series "Stephen King's It." Bellis is a former President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, former governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences a USC lecturer and the composer of music for numerous TV...
- David Devlin - Ann DoranAnn DoranAnn Lee Doran was an American character actress.-Early life and career:Born in Amarillo, Texas, Doran began acting at the age of four. She appeared in hundreds of silent films under assumed names to keep her father's family from finding out about her work...
- Sarah Devlin