Shotgun
ROPEBAIT and RIFFRAFF...hot-blooded gunman and trail town Jezebel...
Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory's Indian commissioner until the notorious Ben Thompson slays the marshal when he tried to make an arrest. Clay turns his back on a white-collar job and his girl to pursue the gang. Picking up a bounty hunter and a beautiful half-breed woman along the way, the little band follows the trail into Apache land where the lawman discovers that the outlaws plan to sell repeating rifles to the Indians.
- 5.4
- 1955
- Released
- 1h 20m
Sterling Hayden
Clay Hardin
Yvonne De Carlo
Abby
Zachary Scott
Reb Carlton
Guy Prescott
Ben Thompson
Fiona Hale
Midge
Angela Greene
Aletha
Lane Chandler
Fletcher
Robert J. Wilke
Bentley (as Robert Wilke)
Paul Marion
Delgadito
John Pickard
Perez
Ralph Sanford
Chris
Rory Mallinson
Frank
Ward Wood
Ed
Al Wyatt Sr.
Greybar (as Al Wyatt)
Harry Harvey Jr.
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- #bounty hunter
- #u.s. marshal
- #lawman
- #badge
- #half breed
Reviews
Sterling Hayden really just goes through the motions in this rather static western adventure. He is "Marshal Hardin", determined to avenge the death of his boss at the hands of the "Thompson" gang. On the trail of their leader, he alights upon a staked-out bounty hunter and his gal, and together the three pursue their quarry. Of course he falls for the gal (Yvonne de Carlo) so there is a little ho
Noir is my passion but Westerns are my comfort food. And Shotgun is a nice fast-food snack. Nothing too exciting going on here. Hadyen is a perfect cowboy as he always is. DeCarlo is done no favors by wardrobe. She wears a puffy pirate shirt and mom jeans through the entire film. Her hair is cut like every 50's TV housewife. A review on Amazon says her ass looked huge in those jeans. I regret read
_**Psychological explorations in the magnificent wilds of the Southwest**_ A Deputy Marshal in Arizona (Sterling Hayden) goes after a ruthless killer (Guy Prescott) in the sunny wasteland, where he meets a spitfire (Yvonne De Carlo) and a suave bounty hunter (Zachary Scott). “Shotgun” (1955) is an obscure 50’s Western so my expectations weren’t exactly great, but it’s actually pretty unique