The Gunfighter (1950)
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A retired gunslinger is forced to strap on his six-shooters once again by the vengeful brothers of a man he killed in self-defense.
| Rating: | Unrated |
| Genre: | Western, Drama, Action & Adventure |
| Directed By: | Henry King |
| In Theaters: | Jun 23, 1950 Wide |
| On DVD: | May 13, 2008 |
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A seminal Western superbly directed with restraint by Henry King.
Good movie about the consequences of our choices.
Audience Reviews for The Gunfighter
Terrific western drama of the deadiest shot in the Old West who returns to his old hometown and resumes his family together.
Super Reviewer
Good western. Gregory Peck plays notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo, who gets challenged by every wannabe at every turn. The Gunfighter has a similar story to High Noon, but without any gunfights and a tense finale, it's a lot less memorable. Overall well worth your consideration if your a fan of Peck or this genre.
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This film is best known for it being at the beginning of the revisionist western. That is, where the world of clear-cut good guys and bad guys had reached its end. Here, we have a gunfighter whose skills with a gun became too good for his own good.
Wherever Gregory Peck's gunfighter goes, trouble goes, right from the beginning, where he's taken on by a young'un who wants to take on the west's top gun. That young man's brothers track the gunfighter down to a town where Peck goes to visit the family he left behind.
As you can imagine, trouble follows. The movie takes on a "High Noon" construct, as the clock ticks down as the brothers close in. Adding to that is yet another young gun who wants to take on the gunfighter.
The drama continues as you would expect. But, the closing section contains some excellent moments, and a finale that has a lot of gritty punch, especially for a movie from 1950.
Thus began the era of the gritty western, where the easy lines of good and evil were erased for good.
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