Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the television series was initially titled Gun Law, later reverting to Gunsmoke.

The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961. John Dunning wrote that among radio drama enthusiasts, "Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time." The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, and stands as the United States' longest-running prime time, live-action drama with 635 episodes. In 2010, Law & Order tied Gunsmoke for most seasons for a live action drama series when it finished its twentieth and final season, but the show finished 179 episodes short of Gunsmoke's final total; in terms of prime-time scripted series with continuing characters, The Simpsons is the only program to exceed 20 seasons. At the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote: "Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by [Ned] Buntline, [Bret] Harte, and [Mark] Twain. It was ever the stuff of legend."

Gunsmoke (film)

Gunsmoke is a 1953 western film directed by Nathan Juran and starring Audie Murphy alongside Susan Cabot, Paul Kelly, Charles Drake. Gunsmoke is a Technicolor film for action star and war hero Audie Murphy. The film has no connection to the contemporary radio and later TV series of the same name.

Plot

Murphy stars as Reb Kittridge, a wandering hired gun who is hired to kill a rancher (played by Paul Kelly). The gunman has also fallen in love with the rancher's daughter (Susan Cabot). Reb mends his ways by the time Gunsmoke comes to a close.

Cast

  • Audie Murphy as Reb Kittridge
  • Susan Cabot as Rita Saxon
  • Paul Kelly as Dan Saxon
  • Charles Drake as Johnny Lake
  • Mary Castle as Cora Dufrayne
  • Jack Kelly as Curly Mather
  • Jesse White as Professor
  • Donald Randolph as Matt Telford
  • William Reynolds as Brazos
  • Chubby Johnson as Doc Farrell
  • Bill Radovich as Bartender
  • Sylvia Lewis as Saloon dancer
  • Peter Lawman as Barber
  • William Fawcett as Hotel clerk
  • Production

    The movie started filming in June 1952 under the title of Roughshod. It was the first of three Westerns Murphy made with Nathan Juran over two years.

    Gun Smoke

    Gun Smoke or gunsmoke may refer to:

  • Gunsmoke, the radio and television drama
  • Gun.Smoke, the arcade game
  • Gun Smoke (film), the 1945 Western film
  • Gunsmoke (film), the 1953 Western film
  • Gunsmoke (aerial gunnery competition), a biennial air-to-surface gunnery meet hosted by the United States Air Force
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    CRW

    CRW can be:

  • Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia (IATA Code: CRW)
  • Counter Revolutionary Warfare
  • Continuous-rod warhead
  • Canopy Relative Work
  • CRW is the ICAO airline designator for Crownair, Canada
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  • Colorado River Western Railway
  • Concrete Reinforcing Wire, a type of square-mesh wire similar to hog wire, but welded rather than woven, and often used in farming and gardening (without concrete) for constructing fences, trellises, and tomato cages.
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  • CRW Systems, Inc., a government software solutions company based in Carlsbad, CA.
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