Gunfight in Abilene (1967)
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.
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
You won't be disappointed!
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
This is one of those movies that come in handy when you can't sleep at night. Watching Bobby Darrin attempt to play a tough ex- Sheriff, is simply to hard to believe. His hair remains perfectly groomed for the entire movie. The outfits are for the most part, wrong for the period in which the film takes place. For me, the background music upstaged all the stars who performed in this boring film.
Bobby Darin looks so goofy in this movie that seeing Leslie Nielsen as a grim and malevolent land baron makes this movie even funnier. Bobby Darin has a nice personality, but he looks 100% ethnic New Yorker, and I doubt he could ride a horse. This is not a bad movie, except that it does not make any sense. It is just the kind of movie that was put together and nobody bothered to check if the plot made any sense, or if the dialogue made any sense. Just a passable B movie. The horrible song, Amy, makes it even worse. The movie was all about Bobby Darin and his guilt over killing Nielsen's brother. The song is about Amy, who plays second fiddle to the broken friendship between Darin and Nielsen. Just another part of the story that is awkward.
Awful movie. I am doing a real service here warning Western fans to avoid it. I liked the title, hadn't seen it before, and was very hopeful. But it is only for Bobby Darin fans.It is slow, boring and predictable. The action was few and boring. Darin had no stage presence for a Western hero. I can't think of anything positive to say about it. Mediocre everything: screenplay mainly, then acting and directing. Everything about the movie was small; no wonder the director mainly worked in TV. This dud of a movie went slow and fast at the same time. Most of it dragged along with the few characters, all uninteresting, and then at the end these scenes occur quickly: the big reveal to Nielsen, and the fate of Nielsen and ex-sheriff Joe Slade. It shows how bad the movie was when reviewers can only praise the song "Amy,' which was pleasant and passable.
I found that the entire picture would have been quite slap stick without Emily Banks. It was she that kept the viewer from falling asleep. The script was horrible! The outcome of the movie was as predictable as the over and over riding the horsey scenes.