Gunfighters Review
A Western noir despite the presence of Cinecolor, Gunfighters is a thoroughly adult Western in the best meaning of the word. People bleed and get hurt during several well-executed fistfights. They also ride hell-bent for leather and horses tumble almost too convincingly for comfort. Forrest_Tucker plays an hombre so tough that he twice stubs out a cigarette in the palm of his hand. Grant_Withers is beaten more mercilessly here than in all his B-Western appearances combined. Only the girls get off scot-free despite the fact that one, Barbara_Britton, plays a prairie femme fatale who stands by her man, the unscrupulous Bruce_Cabot, 'til the bitter end. Her near lookalike sister, Dorothy_Hart, falls instead for Randolph_Scott, the gunfighter who wants to go straight but can't because even his best friend ends up drawing on him. Scott is rock solid as usual and once again proves what a remarkably subtle actor he was. Gunfighters, although released by Columbia Pictures, was a joint production between Scott and B-Western veteran Harry_Joe_Brown and heralded a new era in Hollywood where stars finally reclaimed the power that had been taken away from them by the movie moguls in the 1920s. Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
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