''The Marshal's Daughter'' is a 1953 American action film directed by William Berke and written by Bob Duncan. The film stars

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, Hoot Gibson, Ken Murray, Preston Foster and Johnny Mack Brown. The film was released on June 26, 1953, by United Artists.

Plot

After his wife's death, Ben Dawson retires and forms a traveling medicine show. His infant daughter Laurie grows up to be a sharpshooter and performer in the show. A banker named Anderson is behind a criminal scheme cheating ranchers out of their money. He hires notorious gunslinger Trigger Gans for protection. Ben realizes that Gans was the one who killed his wife. Laurie is glad that rancher Russ Mason is in love with her but, knowing something must be done about the unlawful deeds going on, disguises herself as "El Coyote" and conducts a form of vigilante justice. She ultimately fights Anderson one-on-one in a canyon. Victorious, she sheds her costume upon returning, but Russ spots it and realizes her secret identity, but her father does not.

Cast

as Laurie Dawson * Hoot Gibson as Marshal Ben Dawson * Ken Murray as 'Smiling Billy' Murray * Preston Foster as Preston Foster * Johnny Mack Brown as Johnny Mack Brown * Jimmy Wakely as Jimmy Wakely *

Buddy Baer Jacob Henry "Buddy" Baer (June 11, 1915 – July 18, 1986) was an American boxer and later an actor with important parts in seventeen films, as well as roles on various television series in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1941, he came extremely cl ...

as Buddy Baer *

Harry Lauter Herman Arthur "Harry" Lauter (June 19, 1914 – October 30, 1990) was an American character actor. Early years Lauter was born in White Plains, New York. He worked as a model for a professional photographer and was a rodeo rider before m ...

as Russ Mason * Robert Bray as Anderson *Bob Duncan as Trigger Gans *Pamela Ann Murray as Baby Laurie Dawson * Tex Ritter as Background Singer

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marshal's Daughter, The 1953 films American black-and-white films United Artists films 1950s action films American action films Films directed by William A. Berke 1950s English-language films 1950s American films