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The Gunfighter is a 1950 American Western film directed by Henry King and starring Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell and Karl Malden.It was written by screenwriters William Bowers and William Sellers, with an uncredited rewrite by writer and producer Nunnally Johnson, from a story by Bowers, Roger Corman, and screenwriter and director Andre de Toth.
When Westcott was 4 years old, she appeared in a series of short films. At 5, she appeared in the full-length Thunder Over Texas. [7] She appeared opposite Gregory Peck in the western classic The Gunfighter released in 1950.
Shane is a 1953 American Western film directed and produced by George Stevens and starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon deWilde and Jack Palance. [5] [6] The screenplay, written by A. B. Guthrie Jr. (with contributions from Jack Sher), [6] is based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer. [7]
1950 The Gunfighter: Molly Henry King: 1952 Toughest Man in Arizona: Della R. G. Springsteen: 1953 Those Redheads From Seattle: Liz Lewis R. Foster: 1954 Black Tuesday: Hattie Combest Hugo Fregonese: 1955 A Lawless Street: Cora Dean Joseph H. Lewis: 1957 The Parson and the Outlaw: Mrs. Sarah Jones Oliver Drake: 1965 Apache Uprising: Mrs. Hawks ...
Gregory Peck (1916–2003) [1] was an American actor who had an extensive career in film, television, radio, and on stage. Peck's breakthrough role was as a Catholic priest who attempts to start a mission in China in the 1944 film The Keys of the Kingdom, for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 1950 he was Oscar nominated for the gritty Gregory Peck Western, The Gunfighter at Fox. Bowers wrote Convicted (1950) for Columbia, Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1951) for MGM, Cry Danger (1951) for Robert Parrish at RKO, The Mob (1951) for Parrish at Columbia, and The San Francisco Story (1952) for Parrish at RKO.
The Gunfighter (1950) I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) David and Bathsheba (1951) O. Henry's Full House (1952) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952) King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) Untamed (1955) Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) Carousel (1956) The Sun Also Rises (1957) The Bravados (1958) This ...
Peck began the 1950s with two Westerns, the first being The Gunfighter (1950), directed by Henry King, who had worked with him previously on Twelve O'Clock High. Peck plays an aging "Top Gun of the West" who is now weary of killing and wishes to retire with his alluring but pragmatic wife and his seven-year-old son, both of whom he has not seen ...