''Coroner Creek'' is a 1948 American
Western
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film directed by
Ray Enright and starring
Randolph Scott and
Marguerite Chapman
Marguerite Chapman (March 9, 1918 – August 31, 1999) was an American film and television actress.
Biography
Born in Chatham, New York, Chapman was working as a telephone switchboard operator in White Plains, New York when her good looks br ...
. It was based on the novel of the same name by
Luke Short
Luke Lamar Short (January22, 1854September8, 1893) was an American Old West gunfighter, cowboy, U.S. Army scout, dispatch rider, gambler, boxing promoter, and saloon owner. He survived numerous gunfights, the most famous of which were agains ...
.
Plot
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.
Cast
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Randolph Scott as Chris Danning
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Marguerite Chapman
Marguerite Chapman (March 9, 1918 – August 31, 1999) was an American film and television actress.
Biography
Born in Chatham, New York, Chapman was working as a telephone switchboard operator in White Plains, New York when her good looks br ...
as Kate Hardison
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George Macready as Younger Miles
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Sally Eilers
Dorothea Sally Eilers (December 11, 1908 – January 5, 1978) was an American actress.
Early life
Eilers was born in New York City to a Jewish-American mother, Paula (or Pauline) Schoenberger, and a German-American father, Hio Peter Eilers ( ...
as Della Harms
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Edgar Buchanan
William Edgar Buchanan II (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television. He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the ''Petticoat Junction'', ''Green Acres'', and ''The ...
as Sheriff O'Hea
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Barbara Reed as Abbie Miles
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Wallace Ford
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as Andy West
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Forrest Tucker
Forrest Meredith Tucker (February 12, 1919 – October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker worked as a vaudeville straight man at the age of fifteen. A mentor provided fund ...
as Ernie Combs
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Joe Sawyer
Joe Sawyer (born Joseph Sauers, August 29, 1906 – April 21, 1982) was a Canadian film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1927 and 1962, and was sometimes billed under his birth name.
Early life
Sawyer was born August 29, 1 ...
as Frank Yordy
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William Bishop as Leach Conover
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Russell Simpson as Walt Hardison
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Douglas Fowley as Stew Shallis
* Lee Bennett as Tip Henry
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1948 films
1948 Western (genre) films
American Western (genre) films
Films based on American novels
Films based on Western (genre) novels
American films about revenge
Films directed by Ray Enright
Cinecolor films
Columbia Pictures films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films
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