Coroner Creek (1948)

• Director
  • Ray Enright
• Writers
  • Kenneth Gamet(screenplay)
  • Luke Short(adapted from the novel by)
• Stars
  • Randolph Scott
  • Marguerite Chapman
  • George Macready

  Randolph Scott is a single-minded gunman bent on tracking down and killing the white man responsible for an Indian raid on a stagecoach. Scott's fiancee was killed in the raid and a large army payroll was stolen. The villain is George Macready, a "solid citizen" with fingers in several dirty pies. The film's highlight is not the final confrontation with Macready but a brutal fistfight between Scott and minor heavy Forrest Tucker. Filmed in Cinecolor (a pleasing if limited two-color process), Coroner Creek was based on a novel by western specialist Luke Short.