Fort Worth | |
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Directed by | Edwin L. Marin |
Written by | John Twist |
Produced by | Anthony Veiller |
Starring | Randolph Scott |
Cinematography | Sidney Hickox |
Edited by | Clarence Kolster |
Music by | David Buttolph |
Production company | Warner Bros. |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $698,000[1] |
Box office | $2,342,000[1] $1,450,000 (US rentals)[2] |
Fort Worth is a 1951 AmericanWestern film directed byEdwin L. Marin and starringRandolph Scott. It is Marin's final directing work, as he died two months before the release.[3]
Former gunfighter Ned Britt sets up shop inFort Worth, Texas, as a newspaper man. He falls in love with Flora Talbot, who is the fiancée of a former friend, Blair Lunsford. Britt tries to expose the crooked cattle baron Gabe Clevinger in his newspaper. Clevinger resorts to violence in order to prevent the arrival of the railroad at Fort Worth. Britt has to rethink his journalistic methods to stop him and resorts to violence himself.
Filming started December 1950.[4]
According to Warner Bros records the film earned $1,735,000 domestically and $607,000 foreign.[1]
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