Saturday, 16 November 2024

The Man With the Gun (1955 Richard Wilson & co-scr)

Starts memorably when town tough guy Leo Gordon shoots a boy's dog dead. The Marshal does nothing. So that sets things up nicely.

But 'town tamer' Robert Mitchum is on hand to sort out the bad guys - and try to reunite with his little girl, offspring of town madam Jan Sterling.

Meanwhile hot head John Luton is standing up to them too, to the concern of fiancee Karen Sharpe and her father Emile Meyer. Memorable ending to impressively modern Alex North score.

Mitchum was a 'sweetheart' to newbie Sharpe. When they went to New York to publicise it he carried her off the airplane:

Photographed by Lee Garmes.


The title isn't great. Written by Wilson and N.B. Stone. Wilson worked with Orson Welles on It's All True, Macbeth and Lady from Shanghai.

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