There's not much to be done with names like "Brown Eyes" Lacy and "Lighting" Tyrone

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	• The Duel at Silver Creek Audie Murphy, Faith Domergue Universal Studios, 2003 average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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There's not much to be done with names like "Brown Eyes" Lacy and "Lighting" Tyrone

You probably shouldn't expect too much from a western when you see that the characters have names like The Silver Kid, Marshall "Lightning" Tyrone, Johnny Sombrero and Opal "Brown Eyes" Lacy. Still, Duel at Silver Creek has one interesting twist. It's the bickering misunderstandings between the two male good-guy leads, The Kid and "Lightening," Audie Murphy plays Luke "The Silver Kid" Cromwell and Stephen McNally is "Lightening" Tyrone. (It's a shame that we don't give our top law enforcers nicknames like this anymore. J. Edgar "Lightening" Hoover carries authority.)

There's a lot of lethal claim-jumping going around in the mountains near Silver City. A gang of killers forces the claim holders to sign over their claims, then guns them down so there are no witnesses. Marshal "Lightening" Tyrone, the fastest draw around, plans to hunt them down, bring them to justice or kill them himself. One of the claim holders had a son. He's aiming to do the same. He calls himself The Silver Kid. He's handy with a gun and good at poker. When "Lightening," no dummy who knows he needs more firepower, offers a deputy's badge to The Silver Kid, the Kid accepts. This is going to be a fraught partnership, complicated by a slick mining engineer (Gerald Mohr), a lush, pink-bosomed femme fatale (Faith Domerque) and Dusty (Susan Cabot), the feisty, pants-wearing tomboy we know will smarten up right fine in a dress. We meet the gang leaders early on. There are no surprises as we watch one shoot down miners in cold blood and another strangle to death a wounded miner.

I like Audie Murphy. His early movies leave a lot to be desired, but he grew into a decent actor. In real life he was a man to admire. In Hollywood he gave it his best and learned. In The Duel at Silver Creek he's no match for the hack-written dialogue and those nicknames. Try on "Thanks for the warning, Brown Eyes," "We're trapped! Spread out," "That was a smart stunt! I almost plugged you," "Hey, Dusty, Lighting's back!" and "He didn't have the face of a killer, but he had the cold-steel look of one. I noticed his hands were quick and sure." Stephen McNally was a competent actor, but here he's saddled with providing a dull narration to the story. There's not much he can do with what the writers gave him. This was also one of director Don Siegel's earliest movies.

The video and audio transfers are nothing out of the ordinary. You might enjoy this movie if you like Audie Murphy, if you enjoy the turgid clichés of hack screenwriting and if you have something else to do while you watch. I'm three for three. I'll give it thee stars out of five. You might not.
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One last cliché to keep in mind. (And clichés aren't spoilers) Remember that in Hollywood, good-natured old coots are always gunned down.

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THE DUEL AT SILVER CREEK

ANOTHER AUDIE MURPHY GEM,SEE IF YOU CAN SPOT A YOUNG LEE MARVIN,IF IM NOT MISTAKEN THIS MAY BE HIS FIRST STARING ROLE...THIS MOVIE WAS MADE IN THE WESTERN HAYDAY,TODAY THE PLOT MAY BE CORNEY,BUT I THINK IT STILL RESONATES WITH BOTH WESTERN AND MURPHY FANS ALIKE,FOR IT SHOWS A TRUE WORLD HERO ON STAGE NOT AN IMITATION,I SAY TRUE WORLD HERO BECAUSE IF IT WERE NOT FOR PEOPLE LIKE MR MURPHY AND MANY OTHERS,SEVERAL COUNTRIES WOULD BE SPEAKING ANOTHER LANGUAGE.

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Better Than The Average Western...

Hollywood used to produce Western dramas like it now grinds out police procedurals. "The Duel At Silver Creek" is a better than average example of the genre, featuring Audie Murphy in a solid performance as the two-fisted, gun-toting Silver Kid.

In our story, Silver City, Nevada, is terrorized by a gang of claim-jumpers, who force miners to sign over their silver claims before being murdered. The town Marshal, "Lightning" Tyrone (Stephen McNally in a movie-stealing performance), is injured early in the story and hires the Silver Kid as depuy. The Kid has his own agenda: the gang murdered his father. The love interests are played by Faith Domergue as the Marshal's classy girl and Susan Cabot as the tomboy who falls for the Kid. A young Lee Marvin has a nice cameo as a local tough. Don Siegal, who would go on to work with Clint Eastwood, directs.

The action moves briskly, leading to a final nasty shootout at the hideout of the claim-jumpers. The dialogue and much of the action are standard fare. However, the plot gets a boost in the interesting way the interaction between Lightning and the Silver Kid plays out, and in a nasty act of betrayal that sets up a deadly showdown for the Marshal. "The Duel At Silver Creek" is highly recommended to die-hard fans of the Western genre.

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duel and silver creek

it was a normal Saturday cowboy western of years gone by and i love it

A Better Western

This is one of Audie Murphy's Best. A real adult western. Audie Murphy, out to avenge the killing of his father by the gang who jumped their claim, gains a rep as a real fast gun. He rides into a town where the sheriff/gunfighter (McNally) uses his rep to keep the local gunmen in line. When the sheriff is crippled he covers his injury with bravado and hiring the "kid" as his deputy. It's cross and double cross as the sheriff chases the kid away because he thinks the kid betrayed the secret of his injury to his enemies. It's up to the kid to save the sheriff, get the gang and his revenge, and save the day. Great performances by a perfectly selected cast make this a must watch for classic western fans.

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A quick-draw marshal deputizes the silver kid to track down a claim jumper and her gang. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/23/2005 Starring: Audie Murphy Susan Cabot Run time: 77 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Don Siegel