Coroner Creek *** (1948, Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready, Sally Eilers, Edgar Buchanan, Wallace Ford) – Classic Movie Review 9966

Director Ray Enright’s 1948 Cinecolor Western film Coroner Creek is a useful vehicle for Randolph Scott as gunslinger Chris Danning on the trail of the bad guy Younger Miles George Macready) who got the Native Americans to hold up the stage and then killed his fiancée.

Scott’s secure acting, the good cast and Enright’s capable direction of tough stuff lift it just a notch above par, even if the plot, based on Luke Short’s 1946 novel, is one of the oldest in the book.

Also in the cast are Marguerite Chapman, Sally Eilers, Edgar Buchanan, Wallace Ford, Barbara Reed, Forrest Tucker, William Bishop, Joe Sawyer, Russell Simpson, Douglas Fowley and Lee Bennett.

Coroner Creek is directed by Ray Enright, runs 93 minutes, is made by Producers-Actors Corporation, is released by Columbia Pictures, is written by Kenneth Gamet, based on Luke Short’s novel, is shot in Cinecolor by Fred H Jackman Jr, is produced by Harry Joe Brown, and is scored by Rudy Schrager.

The cast are 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, and Lee Bennett as Tip Henry.

Ray Enright (March 25, 1896 – April 3, 1965) directed 73 films between 1927 and 1953. After Coroner Creek, he made six more films: Return of the Bad Men (1948), South of St Louis (1949), Montana (1950), Kansas Raiders (1950), Flaming Feather (1952), and The Man from Cairo (1953).

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