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The Quick Gun
Spanish release poster
Directed bySidney Salkow
Screenplay byRobert E. Kent
Based onThe Fastest Gun
short story
by Steve Fisher
Produced byGrant Whytock
StarringAudie Murphy
CinematographyLester Shorr
Edited byGrant Whytock
Music byRichard LaSalle
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Admiral Pictures
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • April 1964 (1964-04)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ Don Graham, No Name on the Bullet: The Biography of Audie Murphy, Penguin, 1989 p 296
  2. ^ The Quick Gun at Audie Murphy Memorial Site
  3. ^ p. 192 Larkins, Bob & Magers, Boyd The Films of Audie Murphy McFarland, 1 May 2016
  4. ^ Frank Miller, 'The Quick Gun', Turner Classic Movies accessed 4 June 2012

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