Albuquerque (film)

Albuquerque
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRay Enright
Screenplay by
  • Gene Lewis
  • Clarence Upson Young
Based onDead Freight for Piute
by Luke Short
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyFred Jackman Jr.
Edited byHoward A. Smith
Music byDarrell Calker
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • February 20, 1948 (1948-02-20) (US)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$728,000[1]
Box office$1.7 million (US rentals)[2]

Albuquerque is a 1948 American Cinecolor western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, George "Gabby" Hayes, and Lon Chaney Jr. Based on the novel Dead Freight for Piute by Luke Short, with a screenplay by Gene Lewis and Clarence Upson Young, the film is about a man who is recruited by his corrupt uncle to inherit his freight-hauling empire in the southwest, and who eventually defects to his uncle's honest business rival.[3]

  1. ^ "$750,000- ,000,000 class held just right by Pine Thomas". Variety. January 26, 1949. p. 7.
  2. ^ "Top Grossers of 1948", Variety 5 January 1949 p 46
  3. ^ "Albuquerque". Internet Movie Database. February 20, 1948. Retrieved October 18, 2012.