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Actor-singer Bobby Darin hits the dusty trails of the Wild West in the rowdy, riveting Gunfight in Abilene. After surviving a tragedy in the Civil War, Cal Wayne (Darin) returns home to find his former sweetheart (Emily Banks) engaged to marry the brother of the man he killed. He decides not to win her back and takes on the role of sheriff to appease his feelings of guilt. Soon enough, he is forced into a showdown with an outlaw (Leslie Nielsen) who has blazed a path of chaos everywhere he goes. Honor, loyalty and redemption are put to the test in this pistol-packed adventure where only one man can be left standing
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Gunfight in Abilene (1967)
86 min
Fighting in the Civil War a man accidently kills his friend. Returning to Abilene after the war he finds his former sweetheart about to marry the brother of the man he killed. To pay his debt he not only refuses to win her back but takes the job of Sheriff, a job he doesn't want, when the brother asks him. Still haunted by the killing he refuses to carry a gun. But there is trouble between the ranchers and the farmers and when he finds the brother murdered he straps on a gun and heads after the killer.