The Gunfighter (1950)
Gregory Peck stared in this black and white western after John Wayne had turned down the part. When you go around killing people you start to get a reputation and one gunfighter starts to realise his life is not all he wanted.
This film explores the usual western theme of an outsider who is set against the community he visits, this time time because of his reputation as one of the fastest guns in the west. The story is well told and there is the tension of a band of brothers out for revenge which keeps the plot moving along. Gregory Peck is maybe a bit too much of a nice guy to have ever been the type of outlaw the main character is supposed to have been in the past but otherwise it is very hard to find fault with this film.
4/5
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