The Showdown (1950)
SWORN TO KILL A MAN HE'D NEVER SEEN!
86 min
Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for the two of them. At the saloon-hotel run by Adelaide, Shadrach is convinced that one of the cowhands on the Captain McKellar cattle drive to Montana is his man. He takes the job of trail-herd boss to find the killer. McKellar preaches to Jones that he should forget revenge and let the law of retribution take care of the killer. Shadrach's hard driving of the men and his hunt for the killer makes him bitterly hated, and his retribution quest ends in a manner he did not anticipated.
- Release date
- August 15, 1950
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Bill Elliott as Shadrach Jones
- Walter Brennan as Cap MacKellar
- Marie Windsor as Adelaide
- Harry Morgan as Rod Main
- Rhys Williams as Chokecherry
- Jim Davis as Cochran
- William Ching as Mike Shattay
- Nacho Galindo as Gonzales
- Leif Erickson as 'Big' Mart Stores
- Henry Rowland as Dutch
Crew
- Dorrell McGowan · Director
- Stuart E. McGowan · Director
- Dorrell McGowan · Writer
- Stuart E. McGowan · Writer
- Richard Wormser · Writer
- Dan Gordon · Writer
- Stanley Wilson · Composer
- Reggie Lanning · Cinematographer
- Harry Keller · Editor
- Murray Seldeen · Editor