The Duel at Silver Creek


The Duel at Silver Creek is a 1952 American Western film directed by Don Siegel; his first film in the Western genre. It starred Audie Murphy, Faith Domergue, Stephen McNally. It was the first time Murphy had appeared in a film where he played a character who was good throughout the movie. The working titles of the film were Claim Jumpers and Hair Trigger Kid.

Plot

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

Cast

called it "a very well conceived and executed picture, as well as being obviously a Siegel picture."