Destry Rides Again Audie Murphy Cast
In the former W, a small-scale frontier town is being controlled past ruthless mob boss Decker (Lyle Bettger) and his cronies. After the local sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Decker arranges to have the town drunk (Thomas Mitchell) appointed sheriff, thinking he will be ineffectual. But the new sheriff sends for Tom Destry, son of a famous ii-fisted lawman, to be his deputy. When Tom (Audie Spud) arrives, he isn't exactly the swaggering he-man the sheriff had in mind. In fact, Destry doesn't fifty-fifty acquit a gun. Simply the new deputy's mild outside masks a fierce determination to see justice done, as Decker and the other locals soon observe.
Film Details
Genre
Release Date
Jan 1955
Premiere Information
Los Angeles opening: 19 January 1955
Product Company
Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc.
Distribution Company
Universal Pictures Co., Inc.
State
United states
Screenplay Data
Suggested by the novel Destry Rides Once again past Max Make (New York, 1930).
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 35m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Technicolor)
Theatrical Attribute Ratio
2.00 : 1
Synopsis
In the Western town of Restful, saloon owner Phil Decker signals his girl friend, singer Brandy, to aid him win Henry Skinner's ranch in a crooked poker game. After Brandy secretly replaces one of Henry's aces with a two, he protests his loss but Decker's men beat him upwardly. Exterior, sheriff Joe Bailey assures Henry he volition settle the matter. Decker, however, wants Henry'due south land to complete a block of holdings that will let him to charge cattlemen high fees to drive their herds beyond the West, and when Bailey contests the game's upshot, Decker has his henchman, Curly, kill him. Decker then instructs Mayor Hiram J. Sellers to declare Bailey dead from a heart attack and to name town drunk Reginald T. Rags Barnaby as the new sheriff. Although the townspeople express joy at him, Rags immediately stops drinking and announces that he will send for Tom Destry, the son of legendary Sheriff Destry, to deed as his deputy. Within days, Tom's stage arrives, but Rags is dismayed to note that Tom is small and refined, and further horrified when Decker forces Tom to admit that he carries no gun. In the saloon, Brandy beats Doc Curtis in poker, winning the lid of Curtis' married woman Bessie Mae. When Bessie Mae finds out, she starts a fight with Brandy. Tom breaks up the fight by pouring water over the women, only and so is run out of the saloon by Brandy, who furiously pelts him with glasses and furniture. With Tom at present a laughingstock, Rags begs him to article of clothing a gun. Tom explains that although he possesses his father's famous holster, he does non believe in guns and has cleaned upward other towns without violence. When Rags refuses to deputize him, Tom prepares to get out, simply after he sees Bailey's funeral procession and then learns that Rags has traded in his badge for a whiskey bottle, he asks Sellers to deputize him. Seeing this, Rags asks for his badge back. Their first task is to rescue Henry, his young son Eli, and his pretty niece, Martha Phillips, from Decker, who has arrived to merits the ranch. Tom states that he cannot lawfully keep Decker from taking over the ranch, prompting the citizens to believe that he is league with Decker. Quietly, however, Tom begins to investigate the poker game and Bailey's subsequent death. He visits Brandy, who is charmed by his assertion that he can see her softer side and admits that Bailey was murdered. Tom then queries Doc Curtis, threatening to jail him if he does not examine Bailey'southward body for the true crusade of death. He so hears gunshots from the saloon, and the town watches skeptically every bit he and Rags confront Decker's ruffian henchmen. Tom calmly takes each man's gun and demonstrates his sharpshooting skills against the saloon wall. Shaken, the ruffians exit, after which Tom announces that, now that he has a bullet vanquish from each gun, he can compare them to any bullet establish in Bailey'southward body. Soon afterwards, a jealous Decker warns Brandy to stay abroad from Tom, but instead she finds the deputy and advises him that Decker plans to impale him. Their conversation is interrupted by cattleman Jack Larsen, who informs Tom that Decker is charging exorbitant amounts to drive cattle across his country. Mistrustful, Larsen insults Tom and Brandy, causing Tom to punch him. Later, while singing on the saloon phase, Brandy sees Decker'south henchman surround Tom and stops the song in society to protect him. Just then, Doc arrives with the news that the bullet in Bailey's trunk came from Curly'southward gun, and Decker makes no protest every bit Tom arrests Curly. The side by side solar day, Tom also arrests Larsen, who has driven his cattle through Decker'southward gate. In the jailhouse, Tom almost convinces Curly to name Decker as his boss when Sellers announces they have chosen a jury to effort him. Realizing the trial will be crooked, Tom refuses to allow it, then frees Larsen, urging him to continue his head until Decker has been dealt with lawfully. That night, later Eli informs Tom that Martha wants to buss him, Tom is called into the saloon by Brandy, who urges him to run abroad with her. Gunshots then ring out from the jail, and Tom discovers that Rags has been killed and Curly sprung. Furious, Tom straps on his father's holster and heads back to the saloon, where Decker has encircled the bar with armed men. Tom sneaks in through a back door, and, from his hiding place, expertly shoots each of Decker'south men. Just as the mayor shoots Tom in the hand, Larsen and Physician Curtis enter and shoot him. Decker takes aim at Tom, and when Brandy runs to protect Tom, Decker fires, shooting her in the dorsum. Tom kills Decker and gathers Brandy in his artillery, and she asks for a kiss merely dies moments afterward. Days later, Tom and an doting Eli stroll through boondocks, collecting warm greetings from all of the citizens. They are shocked to hear gunfire in the now peaceful boondocks, and Tom traces the noise to Martha, who is shooting randomly in social club to proceeds his attention. Tom shuts the door to chastise her, but she pulls him into a kiss before he can protest.
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Film Details
Genre
Release Date
Jan 1955
Premiere Data
Los Angeles opening: nineteen Jan 1955
Production Company
Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc.
Distribution Company
Universal Pictures Co., Inc.
Country
United states of america
Screenplay Data
Suggested by the novel Destry Rides Once again by Max Brand (New York, 1930).
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 35m
Sound
Mono
Colour
Color (Technicolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
2.00 : 1
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
According to a May 1954 Hollywood Reporter news item, Irving Glassberg was originally hired as director of photography, but was replaced past George Robinson when Glassberg was assigned to Universal'south 1954 film Captain Lightfoot. May and June 1954 Hollywood Reporter items report that Mari Blanchard suffered several wounds during the filming, including an injured leg when she tripped over a cable on the prepare, and an injured olfactory organ when Mary Wickes accidentally kicked her during the fight scene. Studio press materials and Hollywood Reporter news items add Charles Victor, Buddy Roosevelt and Geraldine Farnum, daughter of silent star Franklin Farnum, to the cast, but their appearance in the final film has not been confirmed.
Other Universal films based on the Max Brand novel Destry Rides Again include the 1932 pic Destry Rides Again, directed by Ben Stoloff and starring Tom Mix and Claudia Dell, and the 1939 version of the same proper name, directed past Destry manager George Marshall and starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich (come across AFI Itemize of Feature Films, 1941-50). From February-September 1964, ABC broadcast a television series called Destry, which featured some of the characters from the Brand novel. The play Destry Rides Again opened on Broadway on April 23, 1959.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in Us January 1955
Released in U.s. Winter December 1954
Remake of "Destry Rides Again" (U.s./1932) starring Tom Mix. A third version of the motion-picture show was made as a vehicle for Audie Tater in 1954.
Picture show is a remake of "Destry Rides Over again," (1939).
Released in U.s.a. on laserdisc June 1991.
Released in United States Jan 1955
Released in United States Winter December 1954
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