When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
Acting
Murphy's stone-cold stillness—barely blinks, terrifies everyone.
Direction
Arnold squeezes 77 minutes for maximum sweat and dread.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp you could cut yourself.
Director
Jack Arnold
Audie Murphy
John Gant
Charles Drake
Luke Canfield
Joan Evans
Anne Benson
Virginia Grey
Roseanne Fraden
Warren Stevens
Lou Fraden
R.G. Armstrong
Asa Canfield
Willis Bouchey
Buck Hastings
Edgar Stehli
Judge Benson
Simon Scott
Reeger
Karl Swenson
Stricker
Whit Bissell
Pierce
Charles Watts
Sid
John Alderson
Chaffee
Jerry Paris
Harold Miller
Russ Bender
Storekeeper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Audie Murphy was the most decorated American soldier of WWII. Casting him as an emotionless killer subverts his wholesome image brilliantly.
The film inverts the Western: no chase, no showdown at noon, just psychological warfare in drawing rooms. Gant is death as bureaucracy.
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