AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Michael Morrison With lots of intricate subordinate plot in the overall probably familiar tale of a tough town tamer, this script by N.B. Stone, Jr., and Richard Wilson is very well served by an excellent cast, led by Robert Mitchum.Jan Sterling, a superlative actress not often enough given a character to show her talent, is second billed as a strong and tough woman who chaperones her female charges, who only dance and entertain, but who are seen by the blue-nosed women of the town as something worse.Karen Sharpe, who has never looked prettier, very girl-next-door-ish, plays the daughter of the town blacksmith who is also the town leader.The daughter is conflicted but her father, played beautifully by Emile Meyer, is not.One of the glories of this excellent motion picture is the number of other characters -- I hesitate to say "minor" because they all figure in the story -- whose lives and actions are pivotal.By one of those coincidences, I just finished a novel by Louis L'Amour with a very similar plot, except the town tamer in "The Empty Land" really doesn't want his role while Mitchum's Clint Tollinger does.This might be the best script for a movie I've ever watched about a town tamer. It has depth and darkness and a realism not often found in Westerns of the 1950s era. Excellent script and excellent cast make this a movie I recommend. And you can see it at YouTube. When I watched, it was interrupted by too many commercials, but that's a fairly low price to see it.

huwdj This is an OK film. Yes, each cliché arrives on schedule, each caricature is present and correct, mostly with the recognisable face of a character actor you cannot quite name. Never mind, this is a western. Generally speaking most westerns conform to a formula that pretty much approximates a morality play. Whatever the ingredients good, in the form of a rugged individual, will overcome bad. The women may be innocent and young, world weary and embittered or careworn and wise (or desperate) but most, will love with the hero and one will ride off with him. Robert Mitchum, 'The Town Tamer', is as effective as always. Jan Sterling with the severely styled makeup and hairdo, over sized eyes and turned down mouth is oddly beautiful. Angie Dickinson is strikingly pretty in a small part. The fat baddie appears in child size buggy and duly meets his fate along with and his evil henchman. There are no surprises but it's a satisfying film for a lazy afternoon.

ma-cortes In the Old west there are always the men who live breathe violence and the women who hold their breath. A famous ¨town tamer¨ named Clit Tollinger(Robert Mitchum) comes hired by the citizens to rid the gunslingers ( Leo Genn, Claude Atkins, among others), Baronland's hoodlums. There he meets the blacksmith (Emile Meyer) , his daughter (Karen Sharpe), her boyfriend(John Lupton), the marshal(Henry Hull) and the Saloon owner (Ted De Corsia). Clint as lawman is appointed deputy to bring peace and puts some cartels saying the following : ¨ Warning , wearing of guns or other weapons in town is banned. Check all hardware at the marshal's office ¨. Clint finds his ex-girlfriend, a local madame (Jan Sterling) in charge of the Saloon girls( Angie Dickinson, Barbara Lawrence, among them). But the town council afraid the raw methods carried out by Clint . At the end the kingpin landowner appears and attempts to murder Tollinger with his own hands.This is a tremendously exciting story of a sheriff-for-hire who had only one more killing to go. It begins as a slow-moving Western but follows to surprise us with dark characters and solid plot. The tale is almost grim , a pacifier comes to a town just in time to make sure its citizenry but later the events get worse . The highlights are the burning at Saloon and the climatic showdown at the ending. Phenomenal and great role for Robert Mitchum as avenger angel and bitter gunfighter, he's the whole show. Vivid and lively musical score by Alex North (Spartacus, Cleopatra), Atmospheric cinematography in black and white by Lee Garmes. The motion picture is stunningly realized by Richard Wilson (Al Capone , Three in Attic) who made good Western as ¨Invitation to a gunfighter and ¨Zane Grey¨ episodes. Watchable results for this offbeat Western.

zardoz-13 "The Night of the Hunter" actor Robert Mitchum plays a tough town taming gunfighter in "Al Capone" director Richard Wilson's modest, but deceptive black & white, 83-minute western "Man with the Gun." Just about everything about this Sam Goldwyn Jr. production looks thoroughly ordinary, but the screenplay by N.B. Stone and Wilson contains layers of subtext that aren't immediately discernible with an initial viewing. Nobody gives a bad performance and the burly Mitchum is agreeably gruff and credible as Clint Tollinger. Westerns about town taming heroes were a dime-a-dozen when "Man with the Gun" came out in 1955. Wilson's freshman effort lacks the epic, widescreen grandeur of Edward Dmytrky's "Warlock" (1959) with Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, and Richard Widmark. Instead, "Man with the Gun" compares more favorably with the Sterling Hayden oater "Top Gun." Things get off to a quick start in "Man with Gun." Vicious gun tough Ed Pinchot (veteran heavy Leo Gordon of "Tobruk") rides into Sheridan City and shoots a dog on the street that is annoying him. The entire town is in an uproar over the shooting because it will frighten their customers. Later, a stranger in gray, Clint Tollinger (Robert Mitchum), appears in town on a horse with a loose shoe. He mends the shoe at Atkins Stable where he learns how to find Nelly Bain (Jan Sterling of "Ace in the Hole") who supervises the saloon girls. This arrangement is a little odd for a western. Nelly doesn't allow men in the door to see her girls and they are only available when they are dancing over at the Palace Saloon. An unsavory New Orleans bred hoodlum, 'Frenchy' Lescaux (Ted de Corsia of "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"), runs the saloon for his partner Dade Holman. 'Frenchy' has a taste for the finer things in life and a $2-thousand chandelier hangs in the Palace. Tollinger and Nelly are old acquaintances and Tollinger has been following her. When he tries to contact Nelly, Nelly's maid (Maidie Norman of "Tarzan's Hidden Jungle") refuses to allow him to visit her—on Nelly's orders. Tollinger decides to stick around Sheridan City for a couple of days. While Tollinger is boarding his horse at Atkin's Stable, he runs into Doc Hughes (Florenz Ames of "The Deadly Mantis") and Doc is surprised to see him."You might call him a town doctor, too," Hughes confides in Saul Atkins (Emile Meyers of "The Line Up"), about Tollinger. "Ponca was a mighty sick town. Clint operated on it. The patient lost a lot of blood, but lived." A wealthy rancher, Dade Holman (Joe Barry of "Bell Book & Candle"), and his trigger-happy minions, particularly Ed Pinchot and Jim Reedy (Claude Atkins of "Merrill's Marauders"), have the town under their thumb. One dance hall girl remarks that they "have painted the town bright yellow." Nevertheless, a hot-headed young man, Jeff Castle (John Lupton of {"Rogue's March"), refuses to back down from Holman's gunslicks. He drives them off his property where he is building a house on land that he owns. Holman is dead set against Castle putting down roots. Meanwhile, the rebellious Castle feels that he must prove his masculinity to his childhood sweetheart Stella Atkins (Karen Sharpe of "The High and the Mighty") and she worries constantly about his welfare. After the town council agrees to hire Tollinger for $500, our hero establishes a midnight curfew for the saloons and prohibits the wearing firearms in the city limits. Naturally, 'Frenchy' Lescaux objects to these ordinances, but he willingly surrenders his knife to Tollinger. To give his actions some measure of legality, Tollinger is deputized by the local lawman, Marshall Lee Sims (Henry Hull of "Jessie James") who fixes him up with a contract with a non-intervention cause. Tollinger prefers to act alone and act fast because he feels that time is not on his side.The problem with Richard Wilson's "Man with a Gun" is that there is really nothing new, but he stages everything smoothly enough. In fact, if you look closely, most of everything occurs on sets that have interiors. People walk into and out of buildings and nothing appears to have been lensed on an interior soundstage which gives "Man with the Gun" a sense of authenticity. John Lupton has the best role and Emile Meyer is uncharacteristically cast against the grain as an honest, upright citizen with a daughter. The subplot about Tollinger following Nelly Bain around to learn about his daughter Beth and the failed relationship between Nelly and he is dramatic enough but rather lackluster. We learn that Clint Tollinger learned about guns early when his father was gunned down in cold blood in his own house and the house was burned while young Clint hid in the bushes. The irony here is that Tollinger's father never owned a gun.The chief problem is that we hear a lot about the lead villain, but we don't see him until the last five minutes of this dusty little oater. The Holman character doesn't stick around long either and he never utters a word. Holman's henchmen fare no better. For example, Joe Reedy tries to kill Tollinger with a derringer concealed in his sombrero, but the wily gunfighter is far ahead of him. In other words, the villains resemble ten-pins in a bowling ally with Mitchum's savvy gunfighter knocking them down with minimal effort. The shoot-out at the end isn't as good as the shoot-out with Reedy. The bad guys try to catch our hero in a cross-fire and he outsmarts them. The plotting of the last shoot-out, especially a mysterious tin-horn whiskey peddler role in it, gives it some depth. This city slicker fellow devises his plan based on Tollinger's gallantry to the women folk of Sheridan City. Angie Dickinson shines in a small role as a dance hall girl named Kitty. Essentially, Wilson remade "Man with a Gun" in 1962 in color with Yul Brynner in "Invitation to a Gunfighter."