The Bounty Killer (film)

1965 film by Spencer Gordon Bennet

For the 1966 film, see The Ugly Ones.

The Bounty Killer

Theatrical release poster

Directed by| Spencer Gordon Bennet
Screenplay by| Ruth Alexander
Leo Gordon
Produced by| Alex Gordon
Starring| Dan Duryea
Rod Cameron
Audrey Dalton
Richard Arlen
Buster Crabbe
Fuzzy Knight
Johnny Mack Brown
Cinematography| Frederick E. West
Edited by| Ronald Sinclair
Music by| Ronald Stein

Production
company

Premiere Productions

Distributed by| Embassy Pictures

Release date

* July 31, 1965 (1965-07-31)

Running time

| 92 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

The Bounty Killer is a 1965 American Technicolor and Techniscope Western film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, written by Ruth Alexander and Leo Gordon, and starring Dan Duryea and Rod Cameron. The supporting cast features Audrey Dalton, Richard Arlen, Buster Crabbe, Fuzzy Knight, Johnny Mack Brown and Tom Kennedy. Broncho Billy Anderson, the cinema's first Western film star, makes his final appearance in the film.[1][2][3] The film was released on July 31, 1965, by Embassy Pictures.

## Plot

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Vermont native Willie Duggan comes west by stage coach. When he arrives in Silver Creek, broke but proud, he is befriended by the “captain”. Then he is brutally beaten for talking to dance hall hostess Carole Ridgeway. The thrashing, however, is terminated by Johnny Liam, who shoots and kills Duggan's assailant. Duggan finds work with a transport company, delivering the miners' payroll. When Duggan and his assistant Luther are ambushed, Duggan kills the robber.

After discovering that rewards are given for such work, Duggan and Luther become bounty hunters. Although they capture outlaw Mike Clayman, his henchmen follow the pair, killing Luther and wounding Duggan. The unconscious victim is found by rancher Ridgeway, whose daughter Carole restores the gunman to health. Despite his love for Carole, Duggan resolves to avenge his partner's death, cuts a double-barrel shotgun down to pistol length, and launches a one-man campaign to exterminate outlaws, Johnny Liam's younger brother among them. and later, Liam himself.

In his zeal, Duggan finally kills an innocent man, becoming a criminal in his own right. While eloping with Carole, Duggan himself is slain from ambush by a bounty hunter.

## Cast

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* Dan Duryea as Willie Duggan
* Rod Cameron as Johnny Liam
* Audrey Dalton as Carole Ridgeway
* Richard Arlen as Matthew Ridgeway
* Buster Crabbe as Mike Clayman
* Fuzzy Knight as Captain Luther
* Johnny Mack Brown as Sheriff Green
* Peter Duryea as Youth
* Eddie Quillan as Pianist
* Grady Sutton as Minister
* Emory Parnell as Sam
* Norman Willis as Hank Willis
* Boyd Morgan as Big Jim Seddon
* Bob Steele as Red
* Dan White as Marshal Davis
* John Reach as Jeb
* Duane Ament as Ben Liam
* Michael Hinn as Mr. Weaver
* Dolores Domasin as Cantina Waitress
* Edmund Cobb as Townsman
* Ronn Delanor as Joe
* Dudley Ross as Indian
* I. Stanford Jolley as Sheriff Jones
* Frank Lackteen as Bartender in Cantina / Man in Audience
* Tom Kennedy as Joe
* Broncho Billy Anderson as The Man in the Cantina

## References

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1. ^ "The Bounty Killer (1965) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
2. ^ Hal Erickson (2014). "The-Bounty-Killer - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
3. ^ "The Bounty Killer". Afi.com. Retrieved December 11, 2015.

## External links

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* The Bounty Killer at IMDb
* The Bounty Killer at AllMovie
* The Bounty Killer at the TCM Movie Database
* The Bounty Killer at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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Films directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet

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* Marked Money (1928)
* Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930)
* The Last Frontier (1932)
* The Midnight Warning (1932)
* Justice Takes a Holiday (1933)
* Jaws of Justice (1933)
* Badge of Honor (1934)
* Ferocious Pal (1934)
* The Fighting Rookie (1934)
* The Oil Raider (1934)
* Rescue Squad (1935)
* Calling All Cars (1935)
* Lawless Riders (1935)
* Get That Man (1935)
* Heir to Trouble (1935)
* Western Courage (1935)
* Heroes of the Range (1936)
* Avenging Waters (1936)
* The Cattle Thief (1936)
* The Fugitive Sheriff (1936)
* The Unknown Ranger (1936)
* Rio Grande Ranger (1936)
* Ranger Courage (1937)
* Law of the Ranger (1937)
* Reckless Ranger (1937)
* The Rangers Step In (1937)
* The Mysterious Pilot (1937)
* Across the Plains (1939)
* Riders of the Frontier (1939)
* Oklahoma Terror (1939)
* Westbound Stage (1939)
* The Cowboy from Sundown (1940)
* Ridin' the Cherokee Trail (1941)
* Arizona Bound (1941)
* The Gunman from Bodie (1941)
* They Raid by Night (1942)
* The Secret Code (1942)
* The Valley of Vanishing Men (1942)
* G-Men vs. the Black Dragon (1943)
* Calling Wild Bill Elliott (1943)
* Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943)
* California Joe (1943)
* Canyon City (1943)
* Beneath Western Skies (1944)
* Mojave Firebrand (1944)
* Code of the Prairie (1944)
* Zorro's Black Whip (1944)
* The Tiger Woman (1944)
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* The Lost Planet (1953)
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* Perils of the Wilderness (1956)
* The Atomic Submarine (1959)
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* Requiem for a Gunfighter (1965)
* D-Day on Mars (1966)

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