Country: USA
Year: 1948
Duration: 90
After his fiancée is abducted from a stagecoach and ends up dead, Chris Danning rides into the town of Coroner Creek seeking the man responsible. Hotel owner Kate Hardison asks him to escort home Abbie, the inebriated wife of rich rancher Younger Miles, but his motives are mistaken and Chris is beaten by Younger’s men. A widow, Della, tells him that Younger is trying to drive her off her land, and Chris begins to believe Younger could be the man he’s after. Younger and his men kill a friend of Chris’s and the sheriff as well, also setting a fire that leads to Della losing all her cattle. A showdown ensues and Chris’s defeats Younger and returns to town and to a possible romance with Kate.
Biography
film director
Ray Enright
(Anderson, Indiana, USA, 1896 - Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA, 1965), director, screenwriter, and film editor, he was born in Indiana but moved to Los Angeles with his family when he was a child. He was just an adolescent when he began working for Mack Sennett as an assistant film editor. He was drafted during WWI and after his return home he started working in film again, for Thomas H. Ince. In 1928, under contract with Warner Bros., he debuted as a director with a Rin Tin Tin movie. He made various films, initially specializing in movies with comic actors such as Joe E. Brown and minor stars such as Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell. Today, he is remembered above all for his westerns from the 1940s, including Trail Street and Coroner Creek, both from 1947, and South of St. Louis (1949). He died of a heart attack ten years after he retired.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Girl from Chicago (1927), Skin Deep (L’uomo dai due volti, 1929), Kid Gloves (1929), Scarlet Pages (1930), Golden Dawn (1930), The Tenderfoot (1932), Havana Widows (1933), Twenty Million Sweethearts (L’universo innamorato, 1934), Dames (Abbasso le donne, 1934), The Travelling Saleslady (Il sapore di un bacio, 1935), Earthworm Tractors (L’irresistibile, 1936), China Clipper (Ali sulla Cina, 1936), Slim (Alta tensione, 1937), Hard to Get (1938), Angels Wash Their Faces(Angeli senza cielo, 1939), Naughty but Nice (L’alfabeto dell’amore, 1939), On Your Toes (1939), Brother Rat and a Baby (1940), Bad Men of Missouri (I tre moschettieri del Missouri, 1940), Law of the Tropics (Tragedia ai Tropici, 1941), The Wagons Roll at Night (Il circo insanguinato, 1941), Wild Bill Hickock Rides (Il cavaliere della vendetta, 1941), The Spoilers (I cacciatori dell’oro, 1942), “Gung Ho!”: The Story of Carlson’s Makin Island Raiders (Gung Ho!, 1943), China Sky (I falchi del fiume giallo, 1945), One Way to Love (Il treno dei pazzi, 1945), Albuquerque (Il solitario del Texas, 1947), Trail Street (Frontiere selvagge, 1947), The Return of the Bad Men (Gli avvoltoi, 1948), Coroner Creek (Il pugnale del bianco, 1948), South of St. Louis (Il ranch delle tre campane, 1949), Kansas Raiders (I predoni del Kansas, 1950), Montana (Più forte dell’odio, 1950), Flame Feathers (La cavalcata dei diavoli rossi, 1952), The Man from Cairo (Dramma nella Kasbah, 1953).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Ray Enright. STORY: Coroner Creek Luke Short (1946). SCREENPLAY: Kenneth Gamet. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Fred Jackman Jr. FILM EDITING: Harvey Manger. PRODUCTION DESIGN: George Van Marter. MUSIC: Rudy Schrager. CAST: Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready, Sally Eilers, Edgar Buchanan, Barbara Reed, Wallace Ford, Forrest Tucker, Joe Sawyer, William Bishop, Russell Simpson, Douglas Fowley, Lee Bennett. PRODUCER: Harry Joe Brown. PRODUCTION: Producer-Actors Corporation.
