Showdown

Director: George Seaton George Seaton

Overview

In this western, two friends part ways when their relationship is jeopardized by their competition for the love of the lovely Kate (Susan Clark). Chuck Jarvis (Rock Hudson) wins the girl, and settles down as a town sheriff. When Chuck is sent off on a mission to capture a notorious train robber, he discovers that the thief is his long-lost friend, Billy Massey (Dean Martin).

Product Details

Release Date:	07/01/2014
UPC:	0025192097874
Original Release:	1973
Source:	ALLIED VAUGHN
Language:	English
Time:	1:39:00
Sales rank:	31,597

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Rock Hudson	Chuck
Dean Martin	Billy
Susan Clark	Kate
Donald Moffat	Art Williams
John McLiam	P. J. Wilson
Charles Baca	Martinez
Jackson D. Kane	Clem,Actor
Ben Zeller	Perry Williams
John Richard Gill	Earl Cole,Earl Cole
Philip L. Mead	Jack Bonney
Rita Rogers	Girl
Victor Mohica	Big Eye
Raleigh Gardenhire	Deputy Joe Williams
Ed Begley Jr.	Pook
Dan Boydston	Rawls
Henry Allingham	Policeman
Richard Breeding	Prisoner
Mickey Burleson	Young Man
Bobbie Christian	Railroad Passenger
Orlando Cordova	Spectator,Boarder
Rich Correll	Billy - Age 18
Hal K. Dawson	Car Salesman
Barbara De Kins	Train Passenger
John Dilg	Baggageman
Cay Forester	Saleslady
Ray Garcia	Tracker #2
Raymond Greenway	Frank Phillips
Clara Jones	Train Passenger,Train Passenger
James Di Pasquale	Composer
David Shire	Composer

Technical Credits

Theodore Taylor

Hank Fine

George Seaton	Director,Producer
Theodore Taylor	Screenwriter
Albert Whitlock	Special Effects
Hank Fine	Screenwriter
John R. Carter	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Waldon O. Watson	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
William Griffith	Sound Effects
Don Sharpless	Sound Effects
Albert J. Whitlock	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

Showdown is not the kind of movie that one can get very worked up about, and that's its big problem. It's amiable enough, so one doesn't feel angry about its shortcomings, but it doesn't inspire any passionate positive feelings either. Mostly, it just passes by the on the screen, making little impression. With a better screenplay, of course, it would have been a better movie. The ingredients -- two former friends must become enemies due to the different choices they made in life -- are familiar but could be the basis of a gripping, entertaining story. In Showdown, it's just a premise that doesn't go anywhere new or show viewers anything they haven't seen numerous times before. There's nothing revelatory about the performances of stars Dean Martin and Rock Hudson either. Martin ambles his way through the film without a great deal of commitment, and while Hudson is definitely better, he still doesn't really give his all to the part. And there's a distinct lack of chemistry between the two, something which this kind of story absolutely has to have to work. George Seaton's direction is fine but undistinguished. Susan Clark is quite good in the nothing role of the wife, and some of the location work is quite stunning, but neither of these can lift Showdown above the ordinary.