Main Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jan Sterling, Karen Sharpe, Henry Hull, Emile G. Meyer
Release Year: 1955
Country: US
Run Time: 83 minutes
Plot
The Man with the Gun in this well-paced western is played by Robert Mitchum. A notorious gunslinger, Mitchum has been hired by a group of concerned citizens to restore law and order to the wide-open town of Sheridan City. Before long, however, Mitchum holds the community in a grip of terror, behaving like a Law Unto Himself. So: Is the star of the film actually the villain of the piece? A last-reel plot twist effectively answers that question. Though Robert Mitchum dominates the proceedings, Man With the Gun also includes some good supporting work by Jan Sterling as Mitchum's saloon-gal wife, Henry Hull as an ageing marshal, John Lupton as an honest young farmer, and Emile Meyer as the town's leading citizen. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Hilyard M. Brown - Art Director, Jerry Bos - Costume Designer, Evelyn Carruth - Costume Designer, Sid Sidman - First Assistant Director, Richard Wilson - Director, Gene Milford - Editor, Alex North - Composer (Music Score), Emil Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision, Don L. Cash - Makeup, Lee Garmes - Cinematographer, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. - Producer, Edward Boyle - Set Designer, John Keane - Sound/Sound Designer, Anthony Carras - Sound Editor, Richard Wilson - Screen Story, N.B. Stone, Jr. - Screen Story, Richard Wilson - Screenwriter, N.B. Stone, Jr. - Screenwriter
Man with the Gun is a 1955 Western film starring Robert Mitchum. The film was released in the United Kingdom as The Trouble Shooter and is also sometimes entitled Deadly Peacemaker. The supporting cast includes Jan Sterling, Henry Hull, Barbara Lawrence, Leo Gordon, and Claude Akins. The harrowing black and white film, which opens with Leo Gordon's character shooting a little boy's dog in front of the child, was shot in a standard square-screen format, written by N. B. Stone, Jr. and Richard Wilson, and directed by Richard Wilson.
