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Western 81 min NR
IMDb6.5
Out of Texas he rode INTO THE FURY OF DURANGO'S WILDEST HOUR!
When his life is saved in a shootout by a fellow gunman whose life he in turn had saved, Alex Longmire promises to give up his way of life. Riding into town he finds the only job available is deputy to sheriff Jade Murphy, an honest man caught between small farmers and a local cattle baron. And he has a pretty daughter. So Longmire decides to stay and see if he can use his expertise with firearms for good.
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After a little bit of quid-pro-quo life saving, "Longmire" (Rory Calhoun) decides it's time to hang up his guns and settle down to a more peaceable way of life. He ambles into town seeking a job, but finds the only one going is working for the decent sheriff "Murphy" (Dean Jagger) who is embroiled in a tense conflict between "Henshaw" (Robert Middleton) and some local farmers whom he'd prefer to swat away like flies. This man is a sophisticated gent, though, and so the sheriff is having to tread carefully - a skill which his now new deputy "Longmire" has yet to acquire. Moreover, when he meets "Caroline" (Martha Hyer) who just happens to be his boss's daughter, things become just a little bit more personal for him too. Now certainly there is very little new here by way of the plot nor really it's execution and to be honest, I never really found Calhoun to be much of an hitter, but thanks to a solid effort from Jagger and some suitably velvet-coated menace from Middleton this provides us with quite a decent afternoon feature that culminates as you'd expect with some gun totin' between our heroic man trying to go straight and the hired nasty "Swann" (Grant Williams) - a man who reall
Fighting fire with fire - gunslinger with gunslinger. Red Sundown is directed by Jack Arnold and written by Martin Berkeley. It stars Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer, Dean Jagger, Robert Middleton, James Millican, Lita Baron and Grant Williams. Music is by Hans J. Salter and cinematography by William Snyder. Gunslinger Alec Longmire (Calhoun) decides to honour a promise and change his ways. Arriving in Durango he quickly gets the opportunity to put his skills to good use when he becomes deputy to Sheriff Jade Murphy (Jagger), the latter of which is struggling to control the despotic behaviour of cattle baron Rufus Henshaw (Middleton). A promise made. A new life… From the higher end of 1950s Western programmers, Red Sundown couples the action and character staples with smart writing. From the off the pic signals its intentions by pushing some machismo front and centre, only to then add some sombre tones and rueful dialogue smarts. The whole story has something worthwhile to say, some keen observations. Not all gunslingers are the same, some enjoy the killing, some do it by necessity, but the message is clear, don't tar all with the same brush. Another thread deals with impressionable youn
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