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| Randolph Scott | ... | Bart Allison | |
| John Carroll | ... | Tate Kimbrough | |
| Karen Steele | ... | Lucy Summerton | |
| Valerie French | ... | Ruby James | |
| Noah Beery Jr. | ... | Sam (as Noah Beery) | |
| John Archer | ... | Dr. John Storrow | |
| Andrew Duggan | ... | Sheriff Swede Hansen | |
| James Westerfield | ... | Otis, the Bartender | |
| John Litel | ... | Charles Summerton | |
| Ray Teal | ... | Morley Chase | |
| Vaughn Taylor | ... | Mr. Baldwin, the Barber | |
| Richard Deacon | ... | Reverend Zaron, Justice of the Peace | |
| H.M. Wynant | ... | Spanish, Sheriff's Deputy | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Frank Chase | ... | Morley's Henchman (uncredited) | |
| Abel Fernandez | ... | Pete, Sheriff's Deputy (uncredited) | |
| Herman Hack | ... | Stage Passenger (uncredited) | |
| Jim Hayward | ... | Shotgun Guard (uncredited) | |
| Reed Howes | ... | Morley's Henchman (uncredited) | |
| Shirley Jocelyn | ... | Lillian (uncredited) | |
| Ethan Laidlaw | ... | Townsman (uncredited) | |
| Mike Lally | ... | Townsman (uncredited) | |
| Pierce Lyden | ... | Morley's Henchman (uncredited) | |
| Philo McCullough | ... | Townsman (uncredited) | |
| Frank Mills | ... | Townsman (uncredited) | |
| Frank O'Connor | ... | Townsman in Church (uncredited) | |
| Bob Reeves | ... | Townsman (uncredited) | |
| Frank J. Scannell | ... | Morley's Henchman (uncredited) | |
| Bob Steele | ... | Irv, Deputy Sheriff (uncredited) | |
| Guy Wilkerson | ... | Abe, Livery Proprietor (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Budd Boetticher | |||
Writing credits | ||
| Charles Lang | (screenplay) (as Charles Lang Jr.) | |
| Vernon L. Fluharty | (story) | |
Produced by | |||
| Harry Joe Brown | .... | producer | |
| Randolph Scott | .... | associate producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Heinz Roemheld | |||
| Mischa Bakaleinikoff | (uncredited) | ||
Cinematography by | |||
| Burnett Guffey | (director of photography) | ||
Film Editing by | |||
| Al Clark | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Robert Peterson | |||
Set Decoration by | |||
| Frank Tuttle | (as Frank A. Tuttle) | ||
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Sam Nelson | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| John P. Livadary | .... | recording supervisor (as John Livadary) | |
| Jean G. Valentino | .... | sound (as Jean Valentino) | |
Music Department | |||
| Heinz Roemheld | .... | conductor | |
Other crew | |||
| David Breen | .... | assistant to producer | |
| Henri Jaffa | .... | technicolor color consultant | |
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This particular Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott collaboration finds Scott as the meanest he ever was on the screen. At least since Coroner Creek where he played a similarly driven man on a vengeance quest against a man who killed his bride to be.
It's worse in Decision at Sundown. A few years earlier when Scott was away at war John Carroll took up with Scott's late wife. Now Randy with sidekick Noah Beery, Jr. has come into the town of Sundown looking to kill Carroll who has moved there and essentially taken over with his bought and paid for sheriff Andrew Duggan. Carroll by no coincidence I'm sure is getting married to Karen Steele that day, the daughter of a local rancher John Litel much to the dismay of Carroll's long time mistress Valerie French.
Scott interrupts the wedding and then he and Beery are trapped in a barn. While all this is going on a lot of the townsfolk who have let Carroll and his bully boys run roughshod over them start reexamining what's happened to their town.
Decision at Sundown shows Randolph Scott as the ugliest he ever was on the screen. He's a pretty mean hero in Coroner Creek as Chris Danning. But his character of Bart Allison in this film makes Danning look like a Boy Scout.
I can't say any more, you'll just have to see the rather unusual ending in this film and how it works out for Scott and the rest of the town of Sundown.
Let's just say he changed everyone's life, but his own.