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Originaltitel: Day of the Evil Gun

1968
Approved
1 Std. 35 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,4/10

1598

IHRE BEWERTUNG

A woman and two children are kidnapped by Apaches. The husband of the captured woman enlists the help of his neighbor to find the Apaches that seized his family; not knowing his neighbor has unknown reasons of his own for helping him.

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Classical Western Quest Western

Eine Frau und zwei Kinder werden von Apachen entführt.Eine Frau und zwei Kinder werden von Apachen entführt.Eine Frau und zwei Kinder werden von Apachen entführt.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,4/10

1598

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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Glenn Ford and his son Peter Ford had a difficult relationship during the shooting of the film. His son later confessed that it was a bitter time for both of them. Ford had just gotten a difficult divorce and behaved in a strange way with his son: one day he was friendly and the other, nasty. Glenn Ford's son compared his father to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Patzer
During the fight with the Apaches in the Mormon ghost town, Forbes shoots out of a window with his pistol right next to his face. In actuality, the recoil of the weapon would have carried it right back into his nose like a punch. In the same scene, Captain Addis shoots a shotgun from a window in a similar fashion, a weapon with even more recoil that, in reality, would have slammed into his face and probably given him a black eye.

Zitate
[during an cholera epidemic]
Dr. Eli Prather: Don't talk to me, I'm busy killin' people.

Verbindungen
Referenced in Blutjunge Unschuld (1970)

Soundtracks
Come Wander With Me
(uncredited)
[theme reuses from the Twilight Zone's episode]

Great Glenn Ford turn in TV budgeted production.

Presumed dead, aging Gunslinger Warfield (Glenn Ford) returns to Adamsville to find that wife Angie and two young daughters have been kidnapped by the Apaches. Owen Forbes (Arthur Kennedy) is the man giving out the news and also claiming Angie was to marry him after giving up on Warfield ever returning. An uneasy alliance forms as the two men set off to find the missing girls.

Directed by Jerry Thorpe and scripted by Charles Marquis Warren, Day Of The Evil Gun is a low budget mixture of more notable genre pieces. Tho the production value is low, it is however boosted by two enjoyable lead performances and the story is never less than interesting as our duo run into a number of feverish like encounters. In fact the film very much feels like a spaghetti Western at times, such is the odd ambiance that accompanies the men on their perilous odyssey. Fine support comes from Dean Jagger & John Anderson, while Harry Dean Stanton also weighs in with an appearance.

No great film by any stretch of the imagination, but certainly one that has a little more to it to keep it above average. 6/10