The Duel at Silver Creek

The Duel at Silver Creek
Directed by	Don Siegel
Produced by	Leonard Goldstein
Written by	Gerald Drayson Adams Joseph Hoffman
Starring	Audie Murphy Faith Domergue Stephen McNally Susan Cabot Gerald Mohr Lee Marvin
Music by	Hans J. Salter
Cinematography	Irving Glassberg
Edited by	Russell F. Schoengarth
Distributed by	Universal-International
Release dates	August 1, 1952
Running time	77 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.25 million (US rentals)[1]

The Duel at Silver Creek is a 1952 Western film directed by Don Siegel and starring Audie Murphy.^[2] It was the first time Murphy had appeared in a film where he played a character who was good throughout the movie.^[3]

Plot

Luke Cromwell, aka the "Silver Kid" (Audie Murphy), loses his father to mining claim jumpers. He is deputised by Marshal Lightning Tyrone (Stephen McNally) of Silver City, who wants to defeat the claim jumpers. The two men fall for different women, Tyrone for the treacherous Opal Lacey (Faith Domergue), who is secretly in league with the claim jumpers, and Cromwell with tomboy Dusty Fargo (Susan Cabot).

Cast

• Audie Murphy as Luke Cromwell, also known as The Silver Kid
• Faith Domergue as Opal Lacey
• Stephen McNally as Marshal Lightning Tyrone
• Susan Cabot as Jane "Dusty" Fargo
• Gerald Mohr as Rod Lacey
• Eugene Inglesias as Johnny Sombrero
• Kyle James as "Rat Face" Blake
• Walter Sande as Pete Fargo
• Lee Marvin as Tinhorn Burgess
• George Eldredge as Jim Ryan

References

1. 'Top Box-Office Hits of 1952', Variety, January 7, 1953
2. The Duel at Silver Creek at Audie Murphy Memorial Site
3. Don Graham, No Name on the Bullet: The Biography of Audie Murphy, Penguin, 1989 p 228

External links

• The Duel at Silver Creek at the Internet Movie Database
• The Duel at Silver Creek at TCMDB