The High Powered Rifle

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The High Powered Rifle - Wikipedia

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The High Powered Rifle
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Maury Dexter
Screenplay by	Joseph Fritz
Story by	Harry Spaulding as Thomas Geary
Produced by	Maury Dexter
Starring	Willard Parker Allison Hayes Dan Simmons John Holland Shirley O'Hara Terrea Lea
Cinematography	Floyd Crosby
Edited by	Eddie Dutko
Music by	Albert Glasser
Production company	Capri Productions
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	September 1960 (1960-09)
Running time	62 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$50,000^[1]

The High Powered Rifle is a 1960 American action film produced and directed by Maury Dexter and written by Joseph Fritz. The film stars Willard Parker, Allison Hayes, Dan Simmons, John Holland, Shirley O'Hara and Terrea Lea. The film was released in September 1960, by 20th Century-Fox.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

It was also known as Duel in the City.

Plot

A private eye is attacked by an assassin.

Cast

Willard Parker as Stephen Dancer
Allison Hayes as Sharon Hill
Dan Simmons as Lt. Sam 'Mac' Donald
John Holland as District Attorney
Shirley O'Hara as Jean Brewster
Terrea Lea as Terrea Lea
Leonard P. Geer as Gus Alpert
Clark Howat as George Merkle
A.G. Vitanza as Little Charlie Roos

Production

In the mid 1950s 20th Century-Fox created a separate film company to make second features in CinemaScope initially called Regal Pictures, then Associated Producers Incorporated or API. Each of their features was shot in seven days in black and white with a budget of $100,000. Unlike other B Picture producers, Regal and API maintained motion picture union standards of salaries and schedules. With Fox's decreasing main feature production schedule, there was a fear that API would have to be disbanded as there were not enough main features to support (which eventually happened in the mid 1960s).

As an experiment, Robert Lippert told API producer Maury Dexter he wished to make films at half the budget and release them as double features in the manner of American International Pictures and Roger Corman's Filmgroup.

Dexter was skeptical, but made his directorial debut when he leapt to the challenge. He completed the film at $50,000 on actual locations, including the house of Gary Cooper's mother.^[6]^[7]^[1]

Dexter said the film's title came from Lippert and Harry Spaulding had to write a script to suit it. It was Dexter's directorial debut.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b Weaver, Tom (April 18, 2014). I Talked with a Zombie: Interviews with 23 Veterans of Horror and Sci-Fi Films and Television. McFarland. pp. 103–104. ISBN 9780786452682.
^ Eleanor Mannikka (2015). "The-High-Powered-Rifle - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
^ "The High Powered Rifle (1960) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
^ "The High Powered Rifle". Afi.com. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
^ "HIGH POWERED RIFLE, The". Monthly Film Bulletin. 27 (312). London: 113. January 1, 1960. ProQuest 1305822321.
^ pp, 103*104 Weaver, Tom Maury Dexter Interview in I Talked with a Zombie: Interviews with 23 Veterans of Horror and Sci-fi Films and Television McFarland 18 Apr 2014
^ ^a ^b Dexter, Maury (2012). Highway to Hollywood (PDF). p. 110.

External links

Films of Maury Dexter

Director

The High Powered Rifle (1960)
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The Purple Hills (1961)
Womanhunt (1962)
Air Patrol (1962)
The Firebrand (1962)
Young Guns of Texas (1962)
The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963)
Police Nurse (1963)
The Young Swingers (1963)
House of the Dammed (1963)
Harbor Lights (1963)
Surf Party (1964)
Raiders from Beneath the Sea (1964)
Wild on the Beach (1965)
The Naked Brigade (1965)
Django the Condemned (1967)
The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968)
Maryjane (1968)
The Young Animals (1968)
Hell's Belles (1969)
A Bullet for Pretty Boy (1970) (uncredited)

Producer only

Frontier Gun (1958)
The 3rd Voice (1960)
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1961)
The Yellow Canary (1963)

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