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- Summary Movie star John Payne played Vint Bonner, a retired gunfighter who wanders the west.
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- John Payne got his start as a singer. After studying voice at New York’s Julliard School, the Virginia native was hired by the Shubert Organization as a stock player for touring theatrical productions.
- He saved Santa Claus. Ironically, the film Payne is best remembered for at Fox is one in which he didn’t sing. In Miracle On 34 Street, he plays young lawyer Fred Gailey, the man who proves that Edmund Gwenn is Santa Claus and wins the heart of Maureen O’Hara.
- He’s a film noir icon. After 34 Street, Payne asked Fox to release him from his contract, and the actor became a freelancer at age 35. Over the next decade, he reinvented his screen persona in gritty crime films often made for independent producers.
- The Restless Gun was based on a radio show. With his movie career slowing, Payne did what many film stars of the era did: he moved to television. On March 23, 1957, he headlined an episode of the CBS anthology series The Schlitz Playhouse of Stars entitled The Restless Gun.
Payne starred as Vint Bonner in The Restless Gun, a half-hour western which aired on NBC Monday evenings from September 23, 1957 to September 14, 1959. He played a gunfighter who preferred not to fight if other options were available. The series was originally based on an earlier radio series starring James Stewart titled The Six Shooter.
John Payne as Vint Bonner and villain Gene Baroda: The dual role in the 1959 episode "Dead Ringer" ended with a shootout between his two characters. John Payne portrait for The Restless Gun in 1957.
No. OverallNo. In SeasonTitleDirected By401"Jebediah Bonner"Edward Ludwig412"Day of the Dragon"Justus Addiss423"Mercyday"Edward Ludwig434"Thunder Alley"Edward LudwigThe Restless Gun: With John Payne, Leonard P. Geer, Dan Blocker, Jeanne Bates. The adventures of Vint Bonner, a cowboy in the post Civil War era.
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- 1957-09-23
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Overview. The Restless Gun is an American western television series that appeared on NBC between 1957 and 1959, with John Payne in the role of Vint Bonner, a wandering cowboy in the era after the American Civil War. A skilled gunfighter, Bonner is an idealistic person who prefers peaceful resolutions of conflict wherever possible.
It was filmed by Universal’s TV subsidiary, Revue, with many of the literate scripts rewritten from Burt’s radio plays. Payne played Vint Bonner, a slightly older (Payne was 45 at the time) drifting gunman in the post Civil War west searching for a place to settle down and retire his ‘restless gun’.
Produced by David Dortort. Based on a Story and Characters Created by Frank Burt. US Western series 1957-59 pilot + 77 episodes x 30 min bw. starring. John Payne. as Vint Bonner. Premise: Adventures of a trouble shooter in the old west. # DIRECTORS INCLUDE: EDWARD LUDWIG, JUSTUS ADDISS, CHRISTIAN NYBY. # ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: CHARLES S. GOULD. #
