The Peacemaker is a 1956 American Western film directed by Ted Post and starring James Mitchell and Rosemarie Bowe. Hal Richards based the script on the novel of the same name by Richard Poole.

The Peacemaker
Directed by	Ted Post
Screenplay by	Hal Richards Jay Ingram
Based on	The Peacemaker by Richard Poole
Produced by	Hal R. Makelim
Starring	James Mitchell Rosemarie Bowe Jan Merlin Jess Barker Hugh Sanders Taylor Holmes Philip Tonge Dorothy Patrick
Cinematography	Les Shorr
Edited by	William Shea
Music by	George Greeley
Color process	Black and white
Production company	Hal R. Makelim Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	November 1956 (1956-11)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Producer Hal R. Makelim intended The Peacemaker to be the first of a series of low-budget productions. According to Merlin, who played the villain, shooting took only "seven or ten days."^[1]

Although the film featured some successful character actors like Hugh Sanders in supporting roles, none of the performers qualified as marquee names; in fact, at this point in his career, star James Mitchell was known only as a dancer (despite some dramatic roles at MGM). While Makelim tried to compensate for these problems by marketing the film to a religious audience—the local clergymen were invited to the film's premiere in Wichita^[2]--The Peacemaker enjoyed only sporadic distribution and was not widely reviewed. Makelim managed to produce only one more film, Valerie (1957), and Mitchell would not make another film appearance until The Turning Point (1977).