Coroner Creek
{{Short description|1948 film by Ray Enright}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Coroner Creek
| image = Coroner Creek FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Ray Enright
| producer = Harry Joe Brown
| screenplay = Kenneth Gamet
| based_on = {{based on|the novel Coroner Creek
1946 novel|Luke Short}}
| starring = Randolph Scott
Marguerite Chapman
| music = Rudy Schrager
| cinematography = Fred Jackman Jr.
| editing = Harvey Manger
| color_process = Cinecolor
| studio = Producer-Actors Corporation
| distributor = Columbia Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1948|07|01}}
| runtime = 90 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
Coroner Creek is a 1948 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott and Marguerite Chapman. It was based on the novel of the same name by Luke Short.
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 defeats Younger and returns to town and to a possible romance with Kate.
Cast
- Randolph Scott as Chris Danning
- Marguerite Chapman as Kate Hardison
- George Macready as Younger Miles
- Sally Eilers as Della Harms
- Edgar Buchanan as Sheriff O'Hea
- Barbara Reed as Abbie Miles
- Wallace Ford as Andy West
- Forrest Tucker as Ernie Combs
- Joe Sawyer as Frank Yordy
- William Bishop as Leach Conover
- Russell Simpson as Walt Hardison
- Douglas Fowley as Stew Shallis
- Lee Bennett as Tip Henry
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0040245}}
- {{TCMDb title|id=27478}}
- {{AFI film|id=25500|title=Coroner Creek}}
{{Ray Enright}}
Category:1948 Western (genre) films
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:Films based on American novels
Category:Films based on Western (genre) novels
Category:American films about revenge
Category:Films directed by Ray Enright
Category:Columbia Pictures films
Category:1940s English-language films
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
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