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Gunfighters is a 1947 American Western film directed by George Waggner and starring Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton. [1] Based on the novel Twin Sombreros by Zane Grey (the sequel of Knights of the Range) and with a screenplay by The Searchers author Alan Le May, the film is about a gunfighter who lays down his guns after being forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to become a ...
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.
In 1927 Bryce became an Oklahoma State game agent, but resigned, intending to pursue college. Following this and during a shooting competition at Shawnee, Oklahoma, Bryce's marksmanship was noticed by an Oklahoma City Police Department night chief who suggested that he should join his police department, which he did in 1928 at age 22, the youngest detective in the department.
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 New York Times film critic, Howard Thompson, gave the film a mixed review, writing, "The typical dour restraint of Glenn Ford, as an exconvict turned pistol-packing parson, is the most steadying ingredient of Heaven With a Gun, a plodding, vest-pocket Western that opened yesterday at neighborhood theaters. As a veteran of many a cattlemen ...
Death of a Gunfighter is a 1969 American Western film directed by Robert Totten and Don Siegel. It stars Richard Widmark and Lena Horne and features an original score by Oliver Nelson . The theme of the film is the "passing" of the West, the clash between a traditional character and the politics and demands of modern society.
Image credits: historymemeshq American history writer and author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund, Arnie Bernstein, also agrees that comedy and ...
Leif Garrett plays the main character in the film as Johnny, a fatherless kid who brings the reformed gunfighter to town to avenge his brother's murder. Instead of being filmed in Italy or Spain as most Spaghetti Westerns were, God's Gun was filmed in Israel and produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, two years before they bought Cannon ...