Gun Belt (film)
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Gun Belt | |
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Directed by | Ray Nazarro |
Produced by | Edward Small |
Screenplay by | Jack Dewitt Richard Schayer |
Story by | Arthur E. Orloff |
Starring | George Montgomery Tab Hunter |
Music by | Irving Gertz |
Cinematography | W. Howard Greene |
Edited by | Grant Whytock |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Global Productions |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Gun Belt is a 1953 American Western film directed by Ray Nazarro and starring George Montgomery and Tab Hunter.[1]
Plot
A former outlaw, Billy Ringo, clashes with his old gang.[2][3] Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch, wed Arlene Reach (Helen Westcott), and let his nephew Chip Ringo live with them. Chip’s father Matt Ringo (John Dehner) is serving a prison sentence, and Billy is determined to keep Chip off the outlaw trail. Billy is trying to keep on the straight and narrow, too, but three other outlaws - Dixon, Hollaway, and Hoke - frame him into pulling a bank robbery with them.
Pretending to side with them, after accidentally killing Matt, Ringo informs Marshal Wyatt Earp of the gang's plan to rob a Wells Fargo express wagon. A gunfight ensues at the robbery, the three outlaws are killed, and Ringo turns Ike Clinton, the ringleader, over to Marshal Earp.
Cast
- George Montgomery as Billy Ringo
- Tab Hunter as Chip Ringo
- Helen Westcott as Arlene Reach
- John Dehner as Matt Ringo
- William Bishop as Ike Clinton
- Jack Elam as Kolloway
- Douglas Kennedy as Dixon
- James Millican as Wyatt Earp
- Hugh Sanders as Douglas Frazer
- Bruce Cowling as Virgil Earp
- William 'Bill' Phillips as Curley
- Willis Bouchey as Endicott
Production
The movie was originally known as Johnny Ringo, Tombstone Trail and Screaming Eagles.[4] [5] Its plotline and lines are duplicated in another Edward Small production, Five Guns to Tombstone (1960).[6]
Hunter signed in October 1952.[7]
Filming started 13 November 1952 at the Goldwyn studios.[8]
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