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The Peacemaker
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;
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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.

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).

Tommy Kirk says he appeared in the film although he thoought the star was Sterling Hayden.^[3]

Plot

A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. There he finds a feud between the ranchers and the farmers. The Railroad Agent is after the ranchers land and has his men causing all the trouble. The new preacher sets out to bring the two sides together and he says he will not need a gun.

Cast

James Mitchell as Terrall Butler
Rosemarie Stack as Ann Davis (as Rosemarie Bowe)
Jan Merlin as Viggo Tomlin
Jess Barker as Ed Halcomb
Hugh Sanders as Lathe Sawyer
Herbert Patterson as Gray Arnett
Dorothy Patrick as Edith Sawyer
Taylor Holmes as Mr. Wren
Robert Armstrong as Sheriff Ben Seale
Philip Tonge as Elijah Maddox
David McMahon as Sam Davis
Wheaton Chambers as Doc Runyan
Jack Holland as Walt Kemper
Nancy Evans as Miss Smith
Harry Shannon as Drunken Cowpuncher

References

^ "2006 Williamsburg Film Festival--Thursday: Jan Merlin on the Peacemaker". Retrieved July 5, 2007.
^ "Makelim First Film, 'The Peacemaker,' in Successful Premiere in Wichita". Boxoffice. 68 (16): 27. February 11, 1956.
^ Valley, Richard (1993). "Just an Average Joe (Hardy): An Interview with Tommy Kirk". Scarlet Street (10): 60–69 at p62. Retrieved October 12, 2021.