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Western. A gun-slinging drifter, armed with a legendary pistol, saves a town from the greedy clutches of an evil family. But what makes him so fast? Is it the man or the gun? Director. Albert C. Gannaway. Writers. Vance Skarstedt. James J. Cassity. Stars. Macdonald Carey. Audrey Totter. James Craig. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist.
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Jul 5, 2017 · Man or Gun (1958) Macdonald Carey is Maybe Smith, a down-on-his-luck cowpoke who finds a flashy holster and six-gun half buried in the desert, straps it on and staggers into the town of Dutch Flats, on foot.
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- The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (1966) The mother of all Western movie shootouts is the climactic showdown between the three title characters in Sergio Leone’s magnum opus The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
- The Wild Bunch (1969) When Sam Peckinpah shoots an action scene, he goes all in. In his gritty revisionist Western epic The Wild Bunch, the titular band of outlaws is eventually met by the full force of the Mexican Federal Army.
- The Mercenary (1968) The duel in the arena in The Mercenary is one of Corbucci’s most nail-biting and beautifully shot action sequences. The arena setting creates a lot of eerie empty space around the gunfighters and puts the audience’s focus squarely on the standoff itself.
- Shane (1953) When Alan Ladd’s titular ex-gunfighter learns that the villains are planning to double-cross his employer during a late-night negotiation at a saloon, he heads into town himself to kill them.
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- The Searchers (1956) It would be impossible to come up with a unanimous No. I, with thousands of films and a century to span, but is there anyone who loves Westerns who doesn’t love The Searchers?
- Stagecoach (1939) Hailed upon its release as a touchstone in the evolution of the Western, Stagecoach is ostensibly a straightforward tale of eight passengers traveling through hostile territory.
- Shane (1953) Shane is not just a story of the West; it’s all the stories of the West: ranchers vs. homesteaders; the taming of the frontier; the showdown between good and evil; and the gunfighter who protects law and order (Alan Ladd), then feels out of place once the job is done.
- My Darling Clementine (1946) The title provides the first clue to John Ford’s intent. Although My Darling Clementine was based on Wyatt Earp’s dubious biography, Frontier Marshal, and follows the events leading up to the gunfight at the OK Corral, Ford concentrated on the romance between Wyatt (Henry Fonda) and Clementine (Cathy Downs).
Gregory Peck excelled as the notorious aging “fastest gun in the West” Jimmy Ringo in The Gunfighter, a classic black-and-white Western that featured themes of legacy, love, and violence....
May 14, 2024 · From little-known gems to award-winning Hollywood landmarks, these Western movies invented an entire genre through the shades of black and white.
Mar 2, 2022 · Those include “Two-Gun Man From Harlem” (1938), “Rhythm Rodeo” (1938), “The Bronze Buckaroo” (1939), and “Harlem Rides the Range” (1939). Finding every single one of these films in an...
