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A Time for Dying (1969) DVD Audie Murphy, Richard Lapp (Audie Murphy’s final feature film)

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A Time for Dying (1969) DVD Color Approx. 73 MIN. Playable in North America (the US, Canada, Mexico, etc.)

Starring: Audie Murphy, Richard Lapp, Anne Randall, Victor Jory, Beatrice Kay, Bob Random, Peter Brocco, and Burt Mustin. Produced by Audie Murphy. Written and directed by Budd Boetticher

Cass Bunning (Richard Lapp), a farm boy with a talent for shooting, meets up with Nellie (Anne Randall), a naive woman from the East, who has been lured West by the promise of a waitressing job which turns out to be in a brothel. Cass helps Nellie escape and the two are forced into marriage by Judge Roy Bean (Victor Jory). Cass decides to become a bounty hunter. He crosses paths with Jesse James (Audie Murphy) who, impressed by Cass' shooting, suggests he join his gang, but Cass declines. Cass is killed in a shootout with the outlaw Billy Pimple (Bob Random), and Nellie is left on her own in the brothel.

This was Audie Murphy’s final feature film. Audie Murphy and Budd Boetticher formed their own company, Fipco (First International Planning Company) to make films. This was planned to be the first of several, but Audie Murphy was killed in a a plane crash on May 28, 1971.