Panhandle Summary
Director: Lesley Selander
Genres: Western
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Regarded by some film buffs as the best of director Leslie_Selander's many westerns, Panhandle stars Rod_Cameron as an ex-lawman turned gunslinger. He hopes to bury his past and homestead in Texas, but his plans change when his newspaper-reporter brother (John Champion) is killed. Reluctantly, Cameron buckles on his gun belt and heads out for retribution against crooked gambler Reed_Hadley. Making his screenwriting debut, Blake_Edwards (who also coproduced the film and played a small supporting role) does his best to steer free of cliches, structuring his script in the manner of the detective stories Edwards had been churning out for radio. No mere B picture, Panhandle was permitted to unspool at an "A" length of 84 minutes. To further assure audience approval, Blake_Edwards rewrote the ending, in which hero Rod_Cameron had originally been killed off. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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