| The Quick Gun | |
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 Spanish release poster | |
| Directed by | Sidney Salkow |
| Screenplay by | Robert E. Kent |
| Based on | The Fastest Gun short story by Steve Fisher |
| Produced by | Grant Whytock |
| Starring | Audie Murphy |
| Cinematography | Lester Shorr |
| Edited by | Grant Whytock |
| Music by | Richard LaSalle |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Admiral Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $400,000[1] |
The Quick Gun is a 1964 American Techniscope Western film directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Audie Murphy.[2] It was the second of four films produced by Grant Whytock and Edward Small's [3] Admiral Pictures in the 1960s.[4]
The film's screenplay was based on Steve Fisher's short story The Fastest Gun that had previously provided the story for two other westerns Top Gun (1955) starring Sterling Hayden and Noose for a Gunman (1960) starring Jim Davis and Ted de Corsia as the villain; both for United Artists. Fisher at this time was also providing the screenplay's for a series of A.C. Lyles second feature Techniscope Westerns for Paramount Pictures.
- ^ Don Graham, No Name on the Bullet: The Biography of Audie Murphy, Penguin, 1989 p 296
- ^ The Quick Gun at Audie Murphy Memorial Site
- ^ p. 192 Larkins, Bob & Magers, Boyd The Films of Audie Murphy McFarland, 1 May 2016
- ^ Frank Miller, 'The Quick Gun', Turner Classic Movies accessed 4 June 2012