Gunsmoke is a 1953

1953 in film

The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:A...

 western film directed by Nathan Juran

Nathan Juran

Naftuli "Nathan" Hertz Juran was an American film art director and film director who is most noted for winning the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for How Green Was My Valley and for directing science fiction and fantasy films such as Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. He was also the brother of...

 and starring Audie Murphy

Audie Murphy

Audie Leon Murphy was a highly decorated and famous soldier. Through LIFE magazine's July 16, 1945 issue , he became one the most famous soldiers of World War II and widely regarded as the most decorated American soldier of the war...

 alongside Susan Cabot

Susan Cabot

-Early life:Born Harriet Shapiro to a Russian Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, Cabot's early life was one of turmoil, and she was raised in eight different foster homes. She completed her education in New York, New York, and found employment as an illustrator...

, Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly (actor)

Paul Michael Kelly was an American child actor who later as an adult became a stage, film, and television actor.-Child actor:...

, Charles Drake

Charles Drake

Charles Drake was an American actor.-Biography:Drake was born as Charles Ruppert in New York City. He graduated from Nichols College and became a salesman. In 1939, he turned to acting and signed a contract with Warner Brothers. He wasn't immediately successful...

. Gunsmoke is a Technicolor

Technicolor

Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

 film for action star and war hero Audie Murphy.

Plot

Murphy stars as Reb Kittridge, a wandering hired gun who is hired to kill a rancher (played by Paul Kelly). The gunman has also fallen in love with the rancher's daughter (Susan Cabot). Reb mends his ways by the time Gunsmoke comes to a close.

Cast

• Audie Murphy
  Audie Murphy
  Audie Leon Murphy was a highly decorated and famous soldier. Through LIFE magazine's July 16, 1945 issue , he became one the most famous soldiers of World War II and widely regarded as the most decorated American soldier of the war...
  
   as Reb Kittridge
• Susan Cabot
  Susan Cabot
  -Early life:Born Harriet Shapiro to a Russian Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, Cabot's early life was one of turmoil, and she was raised in eight different foster homes. She completed her education in New York, New York, and found employment as an illustrator...
  
   as Rita Saxon
• Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (actor)
  Paul Michael Kelly was an American child actor who later as an adult became a stage, film, and television actor.-Child actor:...
  
   as Dan Saxon
• Charles Drake
  Charles Drake
  Charles Drake was an American actor.-Biography:Drake was born as Charles Ruppert in New York City. He graduated from Nichols College and became a salesman. In 1939, he turned to acting and signed a contract with Warner Brothers. He wasn't immediately successful...
  
   as Johnny Lake
• Mary Castle
  Mary Castle
  Mary Ann Castle was an American actress of early film and television whose personal problems destroyed her once burgeoning career. Her best known role was as female detective Frankie Adams in the syndicated western series, Stories of the Century, which aired from 1954 to 1955.-Early years:Castle...
  
   as Cora Dufrayne
• Jack Kelly
  Jack Kelly (actor)
  Jack Kelly was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of "Bart Maverick" in the TV series Maverick, which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962...
  
   as Curly Mather
• Jesse White
  Jesse White (actor)
  Jesse White was an American television, film, and stage character actor. He is best remembered for portraying the Maytag repairman in television commercials, a role he played from 1967 to 1988.-Life and career:...
  
   as Professor
• Donald Randolph
  Donald Randolph
  Donald Randolph was a film, television, and radio actor. The actor, who appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz , acted in dozens of radio dramas, television programs, and over thirty films....
  
   as Matt Telford
• William Reynolds
  William Reynolds (actor)
  William Reynolds is a retired American television and film actor. He is best known for television roles in the 1960s and 1970s....
  
   as Brazos
• Chubby Johnson
  Chubby Johnson
  Chubby Johnson was an American movie and television supporting character actor with a genial demeanor and warm country-accented voice perfect for westerns...
  
   as Doc Farrell
• Bill Radovich
  Bill Radovich
  William Alex Radovich is a former American football guard.-Pro career:...
  
   as Bartender
• Sylvia Lewis
  Sylvia Lewis
  Sylvia Lewis is an American actress, dancer and choreographer.-Career:Sylvia Lewis was born in York, Pennsylvania. She first performed as a young child in the last days of vaudeville in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her first classical training as a scholarship student at the Peabody...
  
  as Saloon dancer