Destry (1954 film)

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Destry (1954 film) is a 1954 Western comedy film starring Audie Murphy as a mild-mannered but skilled lawman who brings order to a corrupt frontier town.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Western comedy film
film
authorOfSourceWork Max Brand
basedOn Destry Rides Again (novel)
character Tom Destry Jr.
cinematographyBy George Robinson
colorProcess Technicolor
countryOfOrigin United States
director George Marshall
distributor Universal-International Pictures
editedBy Edward Curtiss
filmFormat theatrical feature film
genre Western film
comedy film
hasTheme corruption in a frontier town
law and order
non-violent justice
leadActor Audie Murphy NERFINISHED
leadCharacter Tom Destry Jr.
musicBy Frank Skinner
originalLanguage English
partOf American Western comedy cinema of the 1950s
plotSummary A non-gun-toting lawman brings order to a corrupt frontier town using wit and determination rather than violence
portrays Tom Destry Jr. is a mild-mannered but skilled lawman
producer Stanley Rubin NERFINISHED
productionCompany Universal-International Pictures
releaseYear 1954
remakeOf Destry Rides Again (1939 film)
runtime approximately 95 minutes
screenwriter D. D. Beauchamp
James Edward Grant
setting fictional frontier town of Restful
starring Audie Murphy NERFINISHED
Edgar Buchanan
Lori Nelson NERFINISHED
Lyle Bettger
Mari Blanchard
Mary Wickes NERFINISHED
Paul Kelly
Thomas Mitchell
Wallace Ford NERFINISHED

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Audie Murphy
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