Decision at Sundown Page #4

Synopsis: Bart Allison arrives in Sundown planning to kill Tate Kimbrough. Three years earlier he believed Kimbrough was responsible for the death of his wife. He finds Kimbrough and warns him he is going to kill him but gets pinned down in the livery stable with his friend Sam by Kimbrough's stooge Sheriff and his men. When Sam is shot in the back after being told he could leave safely, some of the townsmen change sides and disarm the Sheriff's men forcing him to face Allison alone. Taking care of the Sheriff, Allison injures his gun hand and must now face Kimbrough left-handed.
Genre: Romance, Western
Director(s): Budd Boetticher
Production: Columbia Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.9
APPROVED
Year:
1957
77 min
100 Views


You men sit down and stay quiet.

Wagon!

Around the corner.

You should have killed that fellow

when he passed us on the street,

instead of there in church.

I didn't kill him.

Then what is all the fuss about?

I just told him I was going to.

You just stood up there in church

and told Kimbrough

you was going to kill him.

- Bart, you must be plumb crazy.

- I'm doing this my own way, Sam.

For three years I've hunted Kimbrough,

but he didn't know it.

Before I settle with him,

I want him to know he's being hunted.

You ain't hunting him no more,

he's hunting you.

They're holed up in Abe's livery stable.

Now, don't worry, Tate,

they ain't going nowhere.

We got that whole stable covered,

front and back.

Seeing as how I'm your best man

and got the ring,

I figured I ought to get back

so's we could get on with the wedding.

You done the right thing, Sheriff.

Now, if everybody will get back inside,

we'll proceed with the ceremony.

You can't have a wedding without a bride.

Lucy!

Charlie, I expect you to have Lucy

back here at the church by 12:00.

I don't think we ought to go ahead

with this wedding

until this man Allison is behind bars.

Don't worry about him.

I should think you'd be worried about him.

He said he was going to kill you.

He's not going to kill me.

Allison's not the first man

that's had that thought in mind.

- It's more than just a thought with that one.

- I told you not to worry about him, Charlie.

I expect Lucy back here by 12:00.

I want you to get him now.

Tate, he won't come out,

and we can't get in there and get him

without somebody getting shot up.

I pay you and the boys real good, Swede.

If I didn't think a little gunplay

would come up from time to time,

you wouldn't be worth it.

He won't stay holed up forever.

As soon as he makes his move...

You haven't got forever.

I don't care how you do it.

You've got exactly one hour

to take care of Mr. Allison.

- I'll be at the hotel.

- I wouldn't pass by the stable on the way.

You're liable to not get there.

Tate, is there anything I can do?

How long has it been

since you've handled a gun?

Gracious. Not since the fracas up in Denver.

I don't like guns much.

That figures.

Well, Ruby, it looks like the wedding's

been called off, for a while anyway.

That fellow sure was a nervy cuss,

wasn't he, Doc?

Yeah. It's too bad he didn't use a little

common sense along with his nerve.

What do you mean?

Well, now he hasn't got a chance of

accomplishing what he came here for.

Herb, you and Pete get up

above that eating house.

Unless one of them shows his face,

you just keep shooting

at the window nearest Spanish

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Charles Lang

Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., A.S.C. (March 27, 1902, Bluff, Utah – April 3, 1998, Santa Monica, California ) was an American cinematographer. more…

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