Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.
Acting
Audie Murphy's genuine decency shines—he lived actual heroism.
Production
George Marshall directed the original 1939 version too. Full circle!
Director
George Marshall
Audie Murphy
Tom Destry
Mari Blanchard
Brandy
Lyle Bettger
Phil Decker
Thomas Mitchell
Reginald T. 'Rags' Barnaby
Edgar Buchanan
The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor
Lori Nelson
Martha Phillips
Wallace Ford
Doc Curtis
Mary Wickes
Bessie Mae Curtis
Alan Hale Jr.
Jack Larson
George D. Wallace
Curly
Richard Reeves
Mac
Walter Baldwin
Henry Skinner
Lee Aaker
Eli Skinner
Frank Richards
Dummy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
George Marshall directed BOTH versions—1939 with Jimmy Stewart AND this 1954 Audie Murphy remake. Rare Hollywood do-over by the same hand.
Murphy was the most decorated American soldier of WWII. Casting him as a gun-shy sheriff in 1954—peak Cold War conformity era—carries unconscious tension between his real violence and screen pacifism.
US
