Arizona Raiders is a 1965 American Techniscope Western film directed by William Witney and starring Audie Murphy.[2]
Arizona Raiders | |
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Directed by | William Witney |
Screenplay by | Alex Gottlieb Mary Willingham Willard W. Willingham |
Story by | Frank Gruber Richard Schayer |
Produced by | Grant Whytock |
Starring | Audie Murphy |
Cinematography | Jacques R. Marquette |
Edited by | Grant Whytock |
Music by | Richard LaSalle |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Admiral Pictures |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $400,000[1] |
Clint Stewart (Audie Murphy) is a Confederate war hero who has gone out West to join a renegade band, Quantrill's Raiders, and ends up captured by the law.
Sent to prison with his friend Willie Martin (Ben Cooper), for riding with Quantrill (Fred Graham), the two go along with a jailbreak plan masterminded by former U.S. Army Captain Andrews (Buster Crabbe), who now heads the Arizona Rangers, to grant the men a full pardon if they help the Rangers stop a band of raiders who once rode with Quantrill. Clint has an old score to settle with Montana Smith (George Keymas), one of the Raiders, but plans to take off on his own until both his younger brother and his pal Willie are killed by the raiders.
Murphy's salary for the film was $45,000.[1]