Twenty-four "victims" had died before his lightning draw...until he came to the quiet town that had marked him for death!
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jun 20158/10
He could be as innocent as a baby, but the things that are happening here are still his fault. John Gant is a hired assassin, whenever he rides into a town the whole townsfolk wonder who it is who is on his list. John Gant is a very shrewed assassin for he never gets arrested because he never draws first, he psychologically gets under his targets skins forcing them to shoot first, and John Gant always has witnesses. Today, John Gant has rode into Lordsburg, and from today things will never be the same again... In CinemaScope and Eastman Color Directed by Jack Arnold, we open with a vision of sprawling hills and a vast landscape (DOP: Harold Lipstein), a man handsomely attired in pristine black clothing trots past on his shiny black horse, he gathers pace and gallops off over the hills, we next see him trotting into Lordsburg, elegance and grace oozing from his pores. This is John Gant, also known as Audie Murphy, and for me we are introduced to one of the greatest Western characters outside of the critics favoured lists of usual suspects. Audie Murphy had his critics, he himself hardly went out of his way to embrace stardom and pander to the ink scribblers, but here as Gant is a pe
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Cast
- Audie MurphyJohn Gant
- Charles DrakeLuke Canfield
- Joan EvansAnne Benson
- Virginia GreyRoseanne Fraden
- Warren StevensLou Fraden
- R.G. ArmstrongAsa Canfield
- Willis BoucheyBuck Hastings
- Edgar StehliJudge Benson
- Simon ScottReeger
- Karl SwensonStricker
Crew
- Jack ArnoldDirector
- Gene L. CoonScreenplay
- Harold LipsteinDirector of Photography
- Herman SteinOriginal Music Composer
- Irving GertzOriginal Music Composer
- Frank GrossEditor
- Jack ArnoldProducer
- Howard ChristieProducer
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