elvircorhodzic THE GUNFIGHTER is an unusual western. The film begins with a duel between the two gunmen as usual for many westerns. However, the story later processed extremely interesting topics, but retains the atypical hero (the gunman) at its center.Tension grows at the very end of the film, what is tested and almost always successful recipe. However, in this case is somewhat predictable. The director has managed to combine in one character two incompatible facts. Top gunman (top gun of the West) who hates to shoot. A very clever move that changes the experience of this film. The main character is actually a man who runs away from trouble, but trouble persistently follows him. The infamous killer, who is actually quite a positive phenomenon trying to avoid the fate of remembering the past and looking for a better future. The centerpiece of the film is in fact a rough drama that we briefly shows the extremes of the Wild West. It is extremely important when you first pulled ....Gregory Peck as Jimmy Ringo He is probably the right choice for the role of the main hero. One lonely, isolated and withdrawn character who sees the future in a peaceful family life. Understanding of course there is, but what it represents and what in fact he wants to have are two completely different meaning. Millard Mitchell as Marshal Mark Strett in a real friendly role. He is notorious gunslinger closed immediately or drive him away from the city. However, a friend is something that in this film really exists.The incidents are part of daily life. They are also part of the dramatic, humorous and sentimental atmosphere.

grantss Almost a classic western. Was all set up for it. Had the interesting back-story, the bad guy trying to be a good guy, the tension - will he survive?, the bad guys breathing down his neck. However, unfortunately this was eroded by sentimentality, and a strong feeling of inevitability about the outcome. The ending also wasn't entirely satisfactory.Solid performance by Gregory Peck in the lead role (then again, he doesn't give bad performances). Good support from Millard Mitchell, as the Marshall. Karl Malden, in an early-career role, is a touch irritating as the hyperactive barman.Overall, a good western, but could have been a GREAT western.

bob-790-196018 The gunman in western movies is often a glamorous figure. (Who can forget tall, handsome, gallant Henry Fonda in "Warlock"?) We find him fascinating even though we know he is at best outside the law and at worst a murderer.In "The Gunfighter," a terrific movie, Gregory Peck's Jimmy Ringo has some of the mystique of the gunman, but mostly what we see is his weariness of the life he has led and his fear that he is doomed to be hunted down and shot by some upstart gunman, pretty much like the Jimmy Ringo of 15 or 20 years before. Ringo at age 35 or so is now something of a gentleman in his relations with others, and we learn that he lives by a code--never drawing on an unarmed man, for example. But there is no attempt to whitewash his past. For all we know, his career has been one of unredeemed criminality.What captures our sympathy for Jimmy Ringo and holds us in suspense as to his outcome is not the glamor of the gunfighter but the vulnerability of a tired man desperate to elude his fate. He has convinced himself that he can start a new life with the woman he has always loved but abandoned eight years ago, along with their young son.The entire story covers a span of only a few hours. Pursued by three men who seek to kill him, Jimmy Ringo has arrived in an obscure town with precious little time in which to make his appeal to the woman and her boy. It is clear that his idea of reuniting with her and taking her and the boy away to a place where no one has heard of him is a fantasy. In the end, he dies the way he has lived--by gunfire."The Gunfighter" is a well-written, tightly constructed, tragic story filmed in stark black and white. It's a reminder of how much we have lost with the passing of the western genre.

Tweekums When Jimmy Ringo pops into a saloon for a quiet drink every punk wanting to make a name for himself has to try it on; Ringo might not look mean but his reputation as the fastest gun in the west proceeds him and somebody always thinks they could be faster and even though he just wants a quiet life each confrontation just increases his reputation. After one such incident he leaves town followed by the now dead punk's three brothers... he disarms them and tells them to head back to the town. He rides on to the town of Cayenne and they follow on foot. It looks as if things will repeat themselves when he is recognised here too. The marshal tells him to leave town but he refuses to go until he has seen his wife and child who he hasn't seen for eight years. It turns out that Jimmy and the Marshal are old friends so he agrees to tell her Jimmy wants to talk; however she doesn't want to talk to him. Jimmy agrees to go by sunset; hoping she might change her mind. While he waits the news of his presence spreads; all the young boys skip school to see the famous gunslinger and yet another punk decides to face him down; this one gets to live however as he backs off when Jimmy suggests he already has his gun pointed at him under the table. As evening approaches the vengeful brothers reach town and it looks as though it will them or him... except in this film we don't get the cliché of the showdown, instead we get an act of cowardice followed by a fine little speech from a dying man.I hadn't heard of this film till I was lent a boxed set of Gregory Peck films; now that I've seen it I'm surprised it isn't better known. Perhaps people think it doesn't have enough gunfights or the climax isn't the heroic showdown between a hero and a villain; either way it is a shame as it is a fine film. Gregory Peck does a great job as the taciturn Jimmy Ringo; a man who has clearly done bad things in the past but just wants to go straight and lead a quiet life with his wife and child. He is ably supported by Millard Mitchell who gives a fine performance the Marshal and Skip Homeier who is suitable unpleasant as the young gun hoping to take Ringo's crown. While there might not be much action between the initial shooting and the final confrontation there is plenty of tension and the waiting lets us get to know and care about the characters. If you like westerns I'd certainly recommend this; Peck might not have John Wayne's swagger but he does bring a quiet intensity to his role.