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Director
  
Budd Boetticher

Initial DVD release
  
October 19, 2010 (France)

Duration
  

Language
  
English

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Western

Music director
  
Heinz Eric Roemheld

Country
  
United States

Decision at Sundown movie poster

Release date
  
November 10, 1957

Based on
  
Decision at Sundown 1955 novel  by Vernon L. Fluharty

Writer
  
Charles Lang (screenplay), Vernon L. Fluharty (from a story by)

Cast
  
Randolph Scott
(Bart Allison),
John Carroll
(Tate Kimbrough),
Karen Steele
(Lucy Summerton),
Valerie French
(Ruby James),
Noah Beery, Jr.
(Sam (as Noah Beery)),
John Archer
(Dr. John Storrow)

Similar movies
  
Young Guns
,
Cowboys & Aliens
,
Wyatt Earp
,
American Outlaws
,
Death Rides a Horse
,
Final Chapter: Walking Tall

Tagline
  
At last the search was over...

Decision at Sundown is a 1957 Technicolor western directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott.

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Decision at Sundown movie scenes

One of seven Boetticher/Scott western collaborations that also includes Seven Men from Now, The Tall T, Buchanan Rides Alone, Westbound, Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station.

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Teaser

Bart Allison (Randolph Scott) rides into a sleepy town named Sundown with the intention of killing local boss Tate Kimbrough (John Carroll) by sundown.

Some years earlier Kimbrough had an affair with Allison’s wife who later committed suicide. Tensions build as sundown approaches, not just between Allison and Kimbrough, but among the townspeople as well.

Cast

  • Randolph Scott as Bart Allison
  • John Carroll as Tate Kimbrough
  • Karen Steele as Lucy Summerton
  • Valerie French as Ruby James
  • Noah Beery, Jr. as Sam
  • John Archer as Dr. John Storrow
  • Andrew Duggan as Sheriff Swede Hansen
  • James Westerfield as Otis, the bartender
  • John Litel as Charles Summerton
  • Ray Teal as Morley Chase
  • Vaughn Taylor as Mr. Baldwin, the barber
  • Richard Deacon as Reverend Zaron
  • H. M. Wynant as Deputy Spanish
  • DVD release

    In 2008 a DVD box set of five Budd Boetticher films starring Randolph Scott was released. Along with Decision at Sundown the set includes Buchanan Rides Alone, Comanche Station, Ride Lonesome, and The Tall T.

    References

    Decision at Sundown Wikipedia
    Decision at Sundown IMDb Decision at Sundown themoviedb.org