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Two Guns and a Badge

1954 film by Lewis D. Collins

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Two Guns and a Badge is a 1954 American Western film directed by Lewis D. Collins and written by Daniel B. Ullman. The film stars Wayne Morris, Morris Ankrum, Beverly Garland, Roy Barcroft, William Edward Phipps and Damian O'Flynn. The film was released on September 12, 1954, by Allied Artists Pictures.

Editorial summary

“Two Guns and a Badge” enters the record as 1954 film by Lewis D. Collins. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Guns, Badge and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1954—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Guns, Badge and film.
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“Two Guns and a Badge” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Guns, Badge and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1954.

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Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Two Guns and a Badge” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.