Man with the Gun (1955)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Richard Wilson

Writers:

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

Release Date:

5 November 1955 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

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:

Town Tamer | Chandelier | Town Council | Beautiful Woman | Obesity

Cast

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)

Also Known As:

Deadly Peacemaker
The Trouble Shooter (UK)

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

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

Company:

Formosa Productions

Trivia:

First production of Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

Quotes:

Jim Reedy: Well, now, I reckon it was downright foolish for Slim to draw agin' you. We maybe got off a little on the wrong foot. We're goin' back home now and we won't come to town no more carryin' our guns. Reckon that's what you want, isn't it?
Clint Tollinger: Yeah, that's what a want. Now you take Slim's body and bury him out on the prairie. It doesn't look nice for a town as small as Sheridan to have a graveyard as big as we've got.

Man With The Gun

There are westerns and there are westerns with many actors and then there is a Robert Mitchum western....in this film Mitchum plays a no nonsense, hard as nails character as a so called "town tamer"....he follows his estranged wife played coldly by Jan Sterling as she is the madame of a group of dance hall girls...Mitchum wants to make amends with his ex-wife Sterling but she is cold as ice toward him. Mitchum accepts the job as a combo sheriff and "town tamer" and then manages to shoot up the whole place and fight with anyone who gets in his way....he does not believe in taking any so called prisoners. Along the way Mitchum defends a local young man and his wife who are being terrorized by the local hoodlum who runs the town from his distant ranch. The town council soon gets very wary of Mitchum and wants to see him kicked out of the job...Mitchum in his normal, cold and calculating way tells the town to take a hike - that he wants to continue in his job. Check out a very young Angie Dickinson who plays a dance hall girl...must have been one of her first roles. In the end a good gun fighting scene with a set up dance hall girl and a town misfit played by Leo Gordon who along with the local kingpin rancher tries to wipe out Mitchum. Mitchum handles this role like a pro - cold and calculating, always looking over his shoulder for the next confrontation. One is never far away. A very young Karen Sharpe has a good role as a young housewife infatuated with Mitchum. In the end Mitchum is shot up and winds up in the arms of his estranged wife Sterling. Solid western, very enjoyable....Mitchum up to top standards as a hard charging sheriff. One of Mitchum's best B westerns.