The Bounty Killer ** (1965, Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Audrey Dalton, Richard Arlen, Buster Crabbe, Fuzzy Knight) – Classic Movie Review 7698

Prolific director Spencer Gordon Bennet shot his Technicolor Western The Bounty Killer (1965) along with its double-bill co-feature Requiem for a Gunfighter (1965), each budgeted at $194,000. Rod Cameron stars in both movies, and again it employs several older Western and vintage actors, including Richard Arlen, Larry Buster Crabbe, Fuzzy Knight and Johnny Mack Brown.

Dan Duryea stars as Willie Duggan, who finds easy money in bounty killing but must choose between the violent lifestyle and his new love, beautiful saloon singer Carole Ridgeway (Audrey Dalton).

The Bounty Killer is written by Ruth Alexander and Leo Gordon and shot in Technicolor and Techniscope. It stars Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Audrey Dalton, Richard Arlen, Buster Crabbe and Fuzzy Knight.

Embassy Pictures released it with Requiem for a Gunfighter on 31 July 1965.

The cast are Dan Duryea as Willie Duggan, Rod Cameron as Johnny Liam, Audrey Dalton as Carole Ridgeway, Richard Arlen as Matthew Ridgeway, Buster Crabbe as Mike Clayman, Fuzzy Knight as Captain Luther, Johnny Mack Brown as Sheriff Green, Peter Duryea as Youth – Bounty Hunter, Eddie Quillan as Pianist, Grady Sutton as Minister, Emory Parnell as Sam, Norman Willis as Hank Willis, Boyd ‘Red’ Morgan as Big Jim Seddon, Bob Steele as Red, Dan White as Marshal Davis, John Reach as Jeb, Duane Ament as Ben Liam, Michael Hinn as Mr Weaver, Dolores Domasin as Cantina Waitress, Edmund Cobb as Townsman, Ronn Delanor as Joe, Dudley Ross as Indian, I Stanford Jolley as Sheriff Jones, Frank Lackteen as Bartender in Cantina / Man in Audience, Tom Kennedy as Joe and Broncho Billy Anderson as Man in the Cantina.

The Bounty Killer is directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, runs 92 minutes, is made by Premiere Productions, is released by Embassy Pictures, is written by Ruth Alexander and Leo Gordon, is shot in Technicolor by Frederick E West, is produced by Alex Gordon, and is scored by Ronald Stein.

Dan Duryea and his son Peter appeared in two Westerns together: also Taggart (1964).

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