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His only friend was his gun... His only refuge - a woman's heart!
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
The Gunfighter
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Gregory Peck Helen Westcott Millard Mitchell Jean Parker Karl Malden Skip Homeier Anthony Ross Verna Felton Ellen Corby Richard Jaeckel Victor Adamson Murray Alper C.E. Anderson Carl Andre Beulah Archuletta Gregg Barton Chet Brandenburg Peter Brocco Larry Buchanan Harry Carter Cliff Clark Angela Clarke David Clarke Edmund Cobb Heinie Conklin Dick Curtis Donald Duran Eddie Ehrhart John George Show All…
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Fiebre de sangre, Der Scharfschütze, Geschonden glorie, Стрелецът, Farligt rygte, El pistolero, Ase kädessä, La cible humaine, Monomahia tin avgi, A pisztolyhős, Il fuorilegge del Texas, Hämndens timme, Pistolarul, Scharfschütze Jimmy Ringo, The Big Gun, Romantico avventuriero, La Cible humaine, Μονομαχία την Αυγή, O Matador, Pistolník, 枪手, Luptătorul cu arme, Стрелок, تفنگدار, 권총왕, 霸王血戰史, Jim Ringo, Farligt Rygte, 拳銃王
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USANR
08 Sep 1950
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Brazile 12
05 Jun 1951
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Portugale 12
04 Apr 1952
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02 Jul 1953
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Germany12
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02 Jun 2004
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France
06 Feb 2008
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26 Jun 2020
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Brazil
08 Sep 1950
- Theatricale 12
France
04 Apr 1952
- TheatricalU
02 Jun 2004
- Physical DVD
26 Jun 2020
- Physical Blu-Ray
Germany
02 Jul 1953
- Theatrical12
Netherlands
06 Feb 2008
- Physical12 DVD
Portugal
05 Jun 1951
- Theatricale 12
USA
23 Jun 1950
- TheatricalNR
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At 35-years-old, you might envy a guy for going into early retirement. But in “The Gunfighter,” Gregory Peck makes every one of those trips around the sun look like an eternity he spent passing through hell.
Director Henry King’s Western is like a reverse “High Noon.” Which was, coincidentally, the role Peck was offered - and turned down - after “Gunfighter.” Similarly set over the course of one afternoon in a one horse town, “Gunfighter’s” build-up is not to a confrontation, but the hope of avoiding one.
King’s film works over the machismo of the genre. It mulls over what to do when an entire subsection of film depends upon the conflict from men getting into fights with other men.…
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A film that reconciles with regret, celebrity, and the reality of the myths created in the west. Quite lovely and understated.
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Another film in which some of the behind-the-scenes was more interesting than the movie itself. Not that this movie is a complete chore or anything. I believe my low rating has more to do with expectations and the fact that I’ve been on a roll watching all these Revisionist and bloody Westerns that the classic, more melodramatic approach felt a bit slow for me, if that makes sense.
That being said, Peck is fantastic as Ringo, especially the way he plays this reserved man who isn't looking for trouble, but trouble always finds him. In many ways, it reminded me of the characters Clint Eastwood would later become famous for.
All in all, while I would have loved a little bit more action, for what it is, the film does a nice job delivering, thanks in large part to a great lead performance.
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“Just two hands, like anybody else.”
Wow! This still holds up and is one of my favourite Westerns for it's brilliant dialogue and story structure that delivers in a sharp short time frame. Gregory Peck is great here as Jimmy Ringo and you don't get much of his past but you know the scars that it's created and find more about him currently as the story unfolds. Very much like a play and I guess it doesn't give huge monumental image moments and I wish I could see a nice quality version but regardless this has so many snappy lines of dialogue with a great core of performances and an ending that is just brilliant and fitting. It is stuffed…
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"Well the trouble so far ain't been him demoralizing the town, it's the town demoralizing him. Some fella I hear just tried to demoralize him with a Winchester."
One of the greatest western texts on honor and masculinity and how perception and reputation and mythology all misrepresent reality.
Gregory Peck is The Gunfighter, the fastest gun in the West—but he doesn't want to be that anymore, and it becomes increasingly unclear that it was never a goal of his to begin with. But nevertheless, everywhere he goes he finds young, upstart little pipsqueaks who want to prove their worth by challenging him to a shootout. So when an arrogant kid draws on him in a saloon, Peck kills him in…
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A perfect little object by Henry King, packed with a whirlwind of elements that close in upon Gregory Peck's famous gunslinger; a man on the downslope of a toxic life full of lead cocksmanship, weighed down by bitterness and regret. A deeply American story about a lesson Americans never seem to learn.
It doesn't matter at all that you can see exactly where the film is going, it has an inevitability as powerful as any Shakespearean tragedy. The way the pressure builds, with sly camera movements that push you into the center of the mire, is so beautifully and efficiently done.
I love voice acting legend Verna Felton's hilarious cameo as Mrs. Pennyfeather. I love Skip Homeier's scrawny little upstart… -
“Just trying to stay alive.”
In films dealing with an aging hero—John Wayne as the retiring calvary officer in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Charlton Heston as the old-timer cowboy in Will Penny, and most of all Gregory Peck in The Gunfighter—the mustache was used as a kind of subliminal symbol of defeat. In fact, the subtle droop of Peck’s mustache almost of itself heralded the film’s inevitable tragic ending, while the conformist normalcy of the cut of the mustache (backed up by very plain clothing) emphasized the total lock of glamour of the character—legend notwithstanding. Seldom has a single item of prop makeup been so important to a film’s mood!
— William K. Everson, The Hollywood WesternTop Gun…
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gregory peck: whips out his gun and shoots a man
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Gunfighter adds his reflections and effective presence over a well-known name. It is interesting how Jimmy always seems to be calm, attracting looks, not deviating from his goals, even causing a commotion outside. aiming only at his reconciliation with the past, remaining in his space as long as possible, until the final moments transfer the revolt over his killer, to unload this burden on an unpleasant character, and thus provide us with a final lightness. here Millard Mitchell attracts the spotlight for his performance as a lawman, without expending the necessary energies, just consolidating a classic of permanent effectiveness.
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"Well if he ain't so tough there's been an awful lotta natural deaths in his vicinity."
Jimmy Ringo (Gregory Peck) has a fearsome reputation as one of the fastest hands in the west. But he's getting older. He's starting to see past the illusion that this kind of reputation brings anything but suffering. He can't go anywhere without cocky young men who want to make a name for themselves trying to pick a fight. Most towns find it easier to ask him to move along than to try and prevent the violence that accompanies him, even though it isn't really his fault. He's worn down from being constantly wary and looking for a way out, which leads him to make…
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Western Marathon | Film #26: The Gunfighter (1950)
The Gunfighter is one of the most tragic tales of the western genre in that it deconstructs the myth of the celebrated gunslinger, likely the most recurring figure of the entire genre, who tries to circumvent his notorious reputation. A timeless statement on the side effects of celebrity culture and fake news, Henry King's film provides an argument that has not lost its value or its relevance during the past seventy years.
Despite my usual indifference towards Gregory Peck's wooden style of acting, his presence works favorably in his recreation of the myth of the reputable western hero. He portrays the much-celebrated idol of western culture, except The Gunfighter reveals just how toxic the implications of such a concept are in the first place.
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