Gunfighter [VHS]
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VHS Movie Reviews of Gunfighter [VHS]
Movie Review: Good western!
Summary: 4 Stars
This western was overlooked and underrated - probably because there are no brawls or shoot-outs which there normally was in the westerns of the 50's. Gregory Peck gives a fine performance of a gunfighter who wants to change his life - but the world won't let him. Quiet and believable with a good script, this western in B/W comes out pretty good and ranks among the best of the genre. A must for all fans of the western movies!Movie Review: missed ending
Summary: 4 Stars
Of all the reviews that I read about this fine film, all seem to indicate that the ending was sad, but it was my impression that Ringo did not really die in the movie, as the last seen shows him riding on a horse in the night, presumably to California. Sheriff Mark Strett, his old friend, helped to stage his death to allow him to live a new life.Movie Review: Fame has a price
Summary: 5 Stars
The Gunfighter is not your usual western gunslinger film. It is a look at the current "top gun" and how he feels to be in everyone's gunsights. He's tired and wants to leave the limelight and head west to California wioth his family and start over again where he is unknown. But that is not how it works out. ....The entire cast is superb, from the bartender who is both in awe and respectful of Peck's charecter. ....
Millard Mitchell is excellent as a gunfighter who has managed to outlive his past. He has been there and successfully gotten out of the limelight still intact. Mitchell's treatment of the new "top gun" at the conclusion of the film is outstanding.
This is a fine movie that has stood the test of time. The cast is excellent and it has a stamp of reality to it. I recommend it to anyone.
Movie Review: If it's good enough for Bob Dylan...
Summary: 4 Stars
Dylan sang these words in a 1986 song:
Well, there was this movie I seen one time,
About a man riding 'cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck.
He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself.
The townspeople wanted to crush that kid down and string him up by the neck.
Well, the marshal, now he beat that kid to a bloody pulp
as the dying gunfighter lay in the sun and gasped for his last breath.
Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square,
I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death.
and later in this very long song:
Well, I'm standin' in line in the rain to see a movie starring Gregory Peck,
Yeah, but you know it's not the one that I had in mind.
He's got a new one out now, I don't even know what it's about
But I'll see him in anything so I'll stand in line.
and even later:
There was a movie I seen one time, I think I sat through it twice.
I don't remember who I was or where I was bound.
All I remember about it was it starred Gregory Peck, he wore a gun and he was shot in the back.
Seems like a long time ago, long before the stars were torn down.
The Gunfighter is for real. It's kind of a noir Western, if that's possible. I have no idea how Peck conveys so much with that nearly immobile face of his, but he does-- and never to better effect than in The Gunfighter.
Movie Review: A true classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the finest westerns ever made, and, by the lack of responses here, one of the least appreciated. The synopsis above pretty much explains the plot: an aging gunfighter, trying to escape his past, his enemies, and new challengers to his title of "big, tough gunny," attempts to convince his estranged wife and son to come away with him to a new life for all of them. His reputation, which he once reveled in, is now nothing but a curse. Will he ever be able to escape it? This not a shoot'em up. Peck's character, Jimmy Ringo, spends most of his time in a saloon reflecting on a life that holds no joy and, most probably, a violent end.This movie hits upon the themes of the true nature of gunfighting and its real costs which has influenced such classics as "The Magnificent Seven," "The Shootist," and "Unforgiven." If you are a fan of westerns, you will not be disappointed in "The Gunfighter."