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Gun for a Coward is a 1957 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Abner Biberman and starring Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter and Janice Rule. The film also stars Josephine Hutchinson as MacMurray's mother, despite being less than five years his senior.
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which their youngest brother is killed.
- Abner Biberman, William Holland
- Fred Macmurray
Gun for a Coward. Three brothers -- no-nonsense leader Will Keough (Fred MacMurray), rebellious Harry (Dean Stockwell) and pacifist mama's boy Bless (Jeffrey Hunter) -- bend their family to ...
- Western
- Fred Macmurray
- Abner Biberman
Gun for a Coward (1956) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
After the death of a rancher, his three sons run the ranch but one of them is seen as a coward because of his aversion to gun-fighting. A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him ...
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which their youngest brother is killed.
More a domestic family drama than a Western, "Gun for a Coward" explores sibling rivalry among three cattle-rancher brothers. The three Keough brothers work the spread left by their deceased father, while jockeying for their widowed mother's affection and the love of a neighboring rancher's daughter.
