''Rimfire'' is a 1949 American

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film directed by B. Reeves Eason. It is a noir Western.

Plot

The plot is a mystery revolving around Captain Tom Harvey, an undercover army agent played by

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, who is investigating the theft of army gold shipments. During his undercover investigations, Harvey takes on the job of deputy sheriff and is drawn into discovering the source of a ghost who is terrorizing the town. The ghost is apparently the manifestation of a gambler who was wrongly convicted and hanged for the gold thefts.

Cast

as Captain Tom Harvey *

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as Polly *

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as The Abeline Kid *

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as Editor Nathaniel Greeley *

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as Sheriff Jim Jordan *

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as Porky Hodges *

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as Chico *

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as Judge Gardner *

Margia Dean Marguerite Louise Skliris-Alvarez ( Skliris; April 7, 1922 – June 23, 2023), known by her stage name Margia Dean (name is pronounced as Mar-juh) was an American beauty queen and stage and screen actress of royal Greek descent, who had a career ...

as Lolita * Ray Bennett as Barney Bernard *

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as Curt Calvin * John Cason as Blazer * Jason Robards, Sr. as Banker Elkins * I. Stanford Jolley as Toad Tyler * Ben Erway as Deputy Sheriff Harry Wilson

Production

Filming started December 15, 1948. Margia Dean recalled "It was a good little picture. Some of them I made were corny, but this was pretty well done. These films were done fast with last minute script changes. If you hit your spot and said the dialogue, it was printed."

References

External links

* 1949 films 1949 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Lippert Pictures films Films directed by B. Reeves Eason 1940s English-language films 1940s American films English-language Western (genre) films {{1940s-US-Western-film-stub