| Synopsis: In this classic noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks wanting to make a name for themselves by slaying a legend. After being warned by his old friend the Sheriff, Peck decides to return East to see his estranged wife and the child he left behind. Knowing his death is an inevitability if he stays, Peck leaves but before he can reach his destination his past catches up with him in the form of a young outlaw. A showdown-cum-Greek tragedy ... Full Synopsis
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| A character study of a reluctant gunman, The Gunfighter (1950) was a notable predecessor to the revisionist emphasis on the end of the Westerner (and the West) in such 1960s and 1970s films as Ride the High Country (1962) and The Shootist (1976). The questionable morals of Gregory Peck's mustachioed Jimmy Ringo make him less than ideal, but Peck's mien and the exhausted Ringo's wish to be reunited ... Read Review | |
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