Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

wes-connors In the Southwest of the 1880s, seasoned gunfighter Gregory Peck (as Jimmy Ringo) slips into a saloon. Patrons quickly recognize the long, lean Texan as the fasted gun in the west. Looking to show-off and make a name for himself, young Richard Jaeckel (as Eddie) challenges Mr. Peck's reputation and loses decisively. Out for retribution, the kid's three older brothers form a posse and follow Peck to Cayenne. Peck is there to seek out estranged wife Helen Westcott (as Peggy), who has changed her name and works as a schoolteacher. Peck tells Cayenne sheriff and old friend Millard Mitchell (as Mark Strett) he would like to stay in town and settle down with his wife and son. The men agree the idea is impossible, because Peck is too well-known as a gunfighter...As the vengeful trio approach Cayenne, resident young hot-shot Skip Homeier (as Hunt Bromley) wastes no time engaging in a conflict with Peck. Sensing Peck's reign as the west's top gunslinger may be coming to an end, Mr. Homeier desires the title for himself. "The Gunfighter" offers an intriguing conflict between the characters played by Peck and Homeier. They come to represent two sides of the same coin. This is the western gunfighter, at odds with himself and his past..."The Gunfighter" won award consideration for its writing, by William Bowers with William sellers and Andre de Toth. There was nothing flashy enough to earn a "Best Actor" Oscar nomination for Peck; that's okay, he is even-keeled. Director Henry King and supporting actor Homeier have a couple of outstanding moments; best is their fight scene with Marshal Mitchell (also excellent), which briefly makes one think of Mr. King's colossal fight scene from "Tol'able David" (1921)...Much ado was made about Peck's moustache. The growth on his upper lip growth was cited as a reason for "The Gunfighter" performing less than spectacularly at the box office. More likely, the film's ending was the culprit. We ride off into the sunset with symmetry. By the way, the moustache worn by Peck's character was meant to contrast with the one grown by Homeier. Most viewers, apparently, missed the comparison; however, the facial hair works better on a subliminal level.********* The Gunfighter (6/23/50) Henry King ~ Gregory Peck, Skip Homeier, Millard Mitchell, Helen Westcott

LeonLouisRicci A Proud Movie that could Side with the Films of Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann, this Early Psychological Study is one of the Best of the Loaded Western Genre. its Simplistic Style and Sombre Tone is Handled with Finesse by Director Henry King with a Mature, Classy Script by William Bowers.Tense, Tight, and Taut at 85 Minutes the Film is a Character Study, in Fact it is All About Character with no Reference to Society or Towns, Settling the West, or any such Large Notions. This is Personal. Personal Choices and Consequences. Gregory Peck at His Brooding and Suffering Best. Smoldering Regret with One Last Try to Reunite His Family and Hide Far, Far Away, "...where nobody ever heard of me." A Fine Cast Lends Support with an Outstanding and Believable Millard Mitchell as a Former Friend.This of Course is a Predetermined Self-Delusion, not Only because He can Never Outrun His Past, but the Motion Picture Code of the Time, would not have it. Utilizing Divine Intervention and Controlling the Fate of Anyone who Dare Sin on Screen.If there is one Minor Quibble, it is the Very Final Scene where we get Corny Closing Lines that may make some Cringe, it is at the Church......"I am Mrs. Jimmy Ringo"…..."and his boy".

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.

oldblackandwhite The Gunfighter is surely one of the great classic Westerns of the late 1940's/early 1950's era. Yours truly saw it in 1950, when it was new, with my family in the local small-town theater. It made as powerful impression then as is possible on a 6-year old kid, and it gets better and better with subsequent viewings for the fading old geezer.Tautly and skillfully directed by old studio veteran Henry King, and filmed in stark black and white, this hour and twenty-five minute picture moves along at a brisk pace with nary a wasted scene, all along building suspense while painting intense character studies. Gregory Peck, as the title's badman, and Millard Mitchell as his lawman friend, both turn in overpowering performances, with fine support coming from Jean Parker, Karl Malden, Helen Westcott, and Skip Homeier. The Gunfighter is tough, tense, poignant, gritty, authentic, dramatically engaging, and first rate in every way. The story by William Bowers and William Sellers drew an Acedmy Award nomination. The movie was well received by critics but not by the paying public for some reason. Yet it is now widely, and deservedly recognized as an all-time classic Western.That being said and without detracting from its formidable merits, The Gunfighter was hardly the first "adult" or "mature" Western, as pundits on this forum and elsewhere keep saying. To think so, you must practically ignore most of the "A" Western pictures produced in the 1940's. Does Red River (1948) with its tough, brutal, overbearing antihero and its grand epic story seem to you to have been made for children? No, and neither were any of the "A" Westerns of the same era. "Adult" can't mean sexual situations here, because there was no hanky-panky in The Gunfighter. But there was a plenty in Duel In The Sun (1946), Peck's first Western and a text book example of the way Old Hollywood movie makers knew how to steam your eye glasses without really showing much! And if show and tell is required, get a load of Marlene Dietrich's outfit in the opening scene of The Spoilers (1942). Some very immature types think "mature" means displaying a nihilistic attitude. If that's you, check out Lust For Gold (1949 -- see my review). You can wallow in its angst and love it! But that wasn't the attitude The Gunfighter had anyway. If "mature" requires a dark, brooding, doom-laden, noir-type story, take a gander at early Robert Mitchum opus Pursued (1947), or Ramrod (1947). Are we talking a concentration on character development, adult, even sexual situations, complex dramatic development, try Canyon Passage (1946), Whispering Smith (1948 -- see my review), or The Sea Of Grass (1947 -- see my review). Below is a partial list of others embodying more or less the same "mature", "adult" approaches to the Western genre.Yellow Sky (1948), Abilene Town (1947), Station West (1948), Honky Tonk (1941), Silver River (1948), Barbary Coast (1935), Cimarron (1931), Dakota (1945 -- see my review), San Antonio (1945 -- see my review), California (1946 -- see my review), My Darling Clementine (1946), Flame Of Barbary Coast (1945), Blood On The Moon (1948), Colorado Territory (1948), and of course Stagecoach (1939). And many others.The Gunfighter was following an established tradition, not setting a new one. But it is a fine example. A true classic from the waning days of Old Hollywood's Golden Era! In a few years, they wouldn't be able to make 'em like this one any more.