Whether he's playing a Film Noir tough-guy, or a no-nonsense, shoot-em-up cowboy - Robert Mitchum is, without question, my #1 favourite actor from Hollywood's golden years (the 40s & 50s), bar none.
And, with that said - I'll tell you this - Had Mitchum not been the star of this somewhat run-of-the-mill Western-vehicle (from 1955) - Then I probably would've only given "Man With The Gun" a lower rating of 4 stars.
(Anyway) - As the story goes - In this 80-minute, b&w Western - Mitchum plays Clint Tollinger a "shoot-first-ask-questions-later"-type of gunslinger, who arrives in the slutty/lawless town of Sheridan on personal business only to find himself cleaning up this filthy rats-hole 'cause nobody else has the guts to stand up to that mean, cussing hombre, Ed Pinchot, and his band of belligerent bad boys, who rule all at the point of a gun.
And, with that said - I'll tell you this - Had Mitchum not been the star of this somewhat run-of-the-mill Western-vehicle (from 1955) - Then I probably would've only given "Man With The Gun" a lower rating of 4 stars.
(Anyway) - As the story goes - In this 80-minute, b&w Western - Mitchum plays Clint Tollinger a "shoot-first-ask-questions-later"-type of gunslinger, who arrives in the slutty/lawless town of Sheridan on personal business only to find himself cleaning up this filthy rats-hole 'cause nobody else has the guts to stand up to that mean, cussing hombre, Ed Pinchot, and his band of belligerent bad boys, who rule all at the point of a gun.