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Filming started in June 1955. [2]Female lead Karin Booth was married to the grandson of Allan Pinkerton—founder of the world-famous Pinkerton Detective Agency—and producer Edward Small announced plans to star her as a female Pinkerton detective, but no film seems to have resulted.
On January 7, 1874, Allison killed a gunman named Chunk Colbert, who was known to have already fought and killed seven men by this time. After first racing their horses, [ 13 ] Colbert and Allison entered the Clifton House, an inn located in Colfax County, New Mexico , where they sat down together for dinner. [ 8 ]
Less than a month later, Moon killed a man named Sam Hall by beating him on the head with his pistol. He was acquitted on the grounds of self-defense in the trial that followed. Seven months later, Moon, a jealous man, attacked a gambler named Clay Wilson, believing Wilson was paying too much attention to his (Moon's) wife.
In 1878, a hardened American gunfighter arrives in a small town in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, a place that doesn't understand or appreciate the brutal code of the American Wild West. Gunslinger Sean Lafferty ( Paul Gross ), known as the Montana Kid, has a bounty on his head for killing eleven people across the western United States.
The gunfighter is also one of the most popular characters in the Western genre and has appeared in associated films, television shows, video games, and literature. A gunfighter could be a lawman , outlaw , cowboy , or shooting exhibitionist , but the professional gunfighter was a mercenary "hired gun" ( cf. freelancer ) who made a living with ...
Luke Short was a gunfighter, gambler and bar owner who had drifted down to Fort Worth from Dodge City, Kansas. While in Dodge City, Short had dabbled in gambling, and became friends with several other noted Old West figures, such as Bat Masterson , Jim Masterson and Wyatt Earp , who had also become friends with Courtright.
The Ballad of a Gunfighter is a 1963 [3] Western film starring Marty Robbins. The film has two characters from Robbins' western ballads – Felina from El Paso, and Secora from San Angelo. [4] The movie is set in 1800s San Angelo, Texas and premiered in that city on August 21, 1963. [1]
Matt gets in a dispute over a woman with someone who works for Turner, and kills him in self-defense. Turner schemes to make it appear as murder, and Matt is forced to flee to Texas. A $500 bounty is immediately placed on his head, and Matt has to kill a man in a shoot-out to keep from being taken in.