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Destry (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1954 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
George Marshall

Written By:
Max Brand
Felix Jackson

Actors:
Audie Murphy ..... Tom Destry
Mari Blanchard ..... Brandy
Lyle Bettger ..... Phil Decker
Thomas Mitchell ..... Reginald T. 'Rags' Barnaby
Edgar Buchanan ..... The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor
Lori Nelson ..... Martha Phillips
Wallace Ford ..... Doc Curtis
Mary Wickes ..... Bessie Mae Curtis
Alan Hale Jr. ..... Jack Larson
George Wallace ..... Curly Adams
Richard Reeves ..... Mac
Walter Baldwin ..... Henry Skinner
Lee Aaker ..... Eli Skinner
Mitchell Lawrence ..... The Professor
Frank Richards ..... Dummy

Synopsis:

The third and (as of 1998) final film version of Max Brand's Destry Rides Again, this 1954 Audie Murphy vehicle owes more to the 1939 Jimmy Stewart version than it does to the Brand original. Murphy plays Tom Destry, the peace-loving son of a notorious gunslinger. Destry is summoned to a wide-open western town in hopes that he can stem the villainies of saloon owner Decker (Lyle Bettger) and crooked mayor Sellers (Edgar Buchanan). Though he prefers to talk rather than slap leather, Destry manages to keep the bad guys at bay. But when his best friend, town-drunk-turned-sheriff Rags Barnaby (Thomas Mitchell), is killed by Decker's minions, Destry straps on the shootin' irons and goes to work. Mari Blanchard essays the Marlene Dietrich role as vacillating saloon-hall chirp Brandy, while Lori Nelson is the 'good'girl with whom Destry ultimately settles down.

In the old West, a small frontier town is being controlled by ruthless mob boss Decker and his cronies. After the local sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Decker arranges to have the town drunk appointed sheriff, thinking he will be ineffectual. But the new sheriff sends for Tom Destry, son of a famous two-fisted lawman, to be his deputy. When Tom arrives, he isn't exactly the swaggering he-man the sheriff had in mind. In fact, Destry doesn't even carry a gun. But the new deputy's mild exterior masks a fierce determination to see justice done, as Decker and the other locals soon discover.

Story of a son of fighting lawman who cleans up a cattle town with minimum use of guns.

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