Powder River (film)

Powder River
Directed byLouis King
Screenplay byDaniel Mainwaring
(as Geoffrey Homes)
Story bySam Hellman
(from a story by)
Based onWyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal
1931 novel
by Stuart N. Lake
Produced byAndre Hakim
StarringRory Calhoun
Corinne Calvet
Cameron Mitchell
CinematographyEdward Cronjager
Edited byWilliam B. Murphy
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
20th Century Fox
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • June 17, 1953 (1953-06-17)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$985,000[1]
Box office$1,000,000 (US)[2]

Powder River is a 1953 American Western film directed by Louis King and starring Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet and Cameron Mitchell.[3]

The screenplay was written by Stuart N. Lake, who two years later was the story consultant on the ABC/Desilu western television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.

  1. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p248
  2. ^ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', Variety, January 13, 1954
  3. ^ Powder River at TCMDB