Man with the Gun (1955)

Regisseur:

Richard Wilson

Drehbuchautoren:

N.B. Stone Jr. (story) and
Richard Wilson (story)

Premierendatum:

5. November 1955 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Werbezeile:

A man who lived and breathed violence!

Plot:

A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also...

Plot Keywords:

Fire | Town Council | Dancehall Girl | Gunslinger | Town Tamer

Nutzerkommentare:

We need that guy right here and now!

Besetzung

Robert Mitchum	...	Clint Tollinger
Jan Sterling	...	Nelly Bain
Karen Sharpe	...	Stella Atkins
Henry Hull	...	Marshal Lee Sims
Emile Meyer	...	Saul Atkins
John Lupton	...	Jeff Castle
Barbara Lawrence	...	Ann Wakefield
Ted de Corsia	...	'Frenchy' Lescaux (as Ted De Corsia)
Leo Gordon	...	Ed Pinchot
James Westerfield	...	Mr. Zender (drummer)

Alternativ:

Deadly Peacemaker
The Trouble Shooter (UK)
Einzelgänger, Der (Österreich) (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

83 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Tonverfahren:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:G | USA:Approved (certificate #17526) | Norway:16 | West Germany:12 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Firma:

Formosa Productions

Dialogzitate:

Nelly Bain: You're going to do Mable's song tonight. She's nursing a sore throat.
Ann Wakefield: But I haven't got any voice and that's the worst kind!
Nelly Bain: They aren't paying for your pear-shaped tones at the Palace, dear.
Kitty: Nelly means, "Who listens."

We need that guy right here and now!

I don't remember ever seeing this one before tonight, probably the title sounded so ordinary it kept passing me by. But it is a well crafted b Western, with an interestingly brooding storyline complimented by acting veering from the good to corny.

Robert Mitchum slopes into wide open town looking for his wife and news of their daughter, and stays for a time as town-tamer. As usual the good business folk have mixed emotions - they want to get rid of the baddies but like the business they bring. It still applies: relax drink and gambling laws and encourage the industries but pretend to deplore the seedy effects it can have on ordinary people. What's fascinating about this film is Mitchum's cynically intense portrayal in going about cleaning the town of baddies, and the townsfolk's acceptance that his violent methods were the only ones. Favourite bit: the sudden demise of 2 of the baddies in the Red Dog saloon. The firing of the main saloon bordered on nasty, but it was an effective way to combat the spread of poison.

Overall a very good film with its only fault tending to be a little hokeyness - not so good for Do-Gooders who would probably prefer a lifetime of negotiation with Evil rather than end it.