''Lightning Guns'' is a 1950 American
Western
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film directed by
Fred F. Sears and starring
Charles Starrett
Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the ''Durango Kid'' westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: ...
,
Gloria Henry and
William Bailey.
[Pitts p.191] The film is part of
Columbia's long-running
Durango Kid
Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the ''Durango Kid'' westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: ...
series.
It was shot at the
Iverson Ranch with
art direction by
Charles Clague
Charles Clague (1890–1962) was a British-born art director who worked in Hollywood films. He was employed by Columbia Pictures during the 1940s and early 1950s.Blottner p.166
Selected filmography
* ''Phantom of Chinatown'' (1940)
* '' Farewe ...
.
Cast
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Charles Starrett
Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the ''Durango Kid'' westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: ...
as Steve Brandon / Durango Kid
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Gloria Henry as Susan Atkins
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William Bailey as Luke Atkins
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Edgar Dearing
Edgar Dearing (May 4, 1893 – August 17, 1974) was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films.
Biography
Born in 1893, Dearing started in silent comedy shorts for Hal Roach, including several with La ...
as Capt. Dan Saunders
* Raymond Bond as Jud Norton
*
Jock Mahoney
Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney (February 7, 1919 – December 14, 1989), known professionally as Jock Mahoney, was an American actor and stuntman. He starred in two Action/Adventure television series, ''The Range Rider'' and ''Yancy Derringer''. He ...
as Sheriff Rob Saunders
* Ken Houchins as Ken Houchins - Guitar Player
*
Smiley Burnette
Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, a ...
as Smiley Burnette
References
Bibliography
* Pitts, Michael R. ''Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films''. McFarland, 2012.
External links
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1950 films
1950 Western (genre) films
American Western (genre) films
Films directed by Fred F. Sears
Columbia Pictures films
American black-and-white films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
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