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Murphy reneged on the deal and the film was never made. Kazear sued Murphy in 1958. [52] The 1950s ended with Murphy appearing in three westerns. He co-starred with 14-year-old Sandra Dee in the 1959 film The Wild and the Innocent. The film's cast was rounded out with Gilbert Roland, Joanne Dru and Jim Backus. [53]
Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) [1] was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II , [ 4 ] and has been described as the most highly decorated enlisted soldier in U.S. history.
The Duel at Silver Creek is a 1952 American Western film directed by Don Siegel; his first film in the Western genre. It starred Stephen McNally , Audie Murphy and Faith Domergue . [ 2 ] It was the first time Murphy had appeared in a film where he played a character who was good throughout the movie. [ 3 ]
Bullet for a Badman is a 1964 American Western film directed by R. G. Springsteen and starring Audie Murphy and Darren McGavin. [2] The film is based on the 1958 novel Renegade Posse by Marvin H. Albert. The film was shot between October and November 1963 [3] in Zion National Park and Snow Canyon State Park in Utah. [4]
The film was the last of seven Westerns Audie Murphy made with producer Gordon Kay, starting with Hell Bent for Leather (1960). [1] Parts of the film were shot at Kanab Canyon in Utah . [ 3 ] Scenes from earlier Universal films starring Murphy, including Kansas Raiders , The Cimarron Kid , Ride Clear of Diablo , Night Passage , Gunsmoke and ...
Clint Stewart (Audie Murphy) is a Confederate war hero who has gone out West to join a renegade band, Quantrill's Raiders, and ends up captured by the law.Sent to prison with his friend Willie Martin (), for riding with Quantrill (Fred Graham), the two go along with a jailbreak plan masterminded by former U.S. Army Captain Andrews (Buster Crabbe), who now heads the Arizona Rangers, to grant ...
The film's cast was notable for having two famously highly decorated, real-life World War II combat veterans -- former infantryman Murphy (Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, etc. [3]-- "the most decorated Soldier in American history" [4] [5]), and former bomber pilot and squadron commander Stewart (Distinguished Flying Crosses, French Croix de Guerre, Air Medals, etc. [6 ...
Gunsmoke is a 1953 American Western film directed by Nathan Juran and starring Audie Murphy, Susan Cabot, and Paul Kelly. The film has no connection to the contemporary radio and later TV series of the same name. The film was based on the 1951 novel Roughshod by Norman A. Fox.