Former Texas Ranger named Logan (Audie Murphy) and nowadays luckly married to a beautiful girl , Susan (Beverly Owen) and with a child , becomes involved with a bank robber called Sam Guard (Darren McGavin) who results to be ex-husband of Susan . He had to kill or be killed , as he fought the deadliest duel in frontier history ¡ The gunslinger whose life he had saved forced him to stand in the path of a robber .. Bullet for a badman.
A nice Western with interesting plot and filled with frantic action , riding pursuits , a family story , and a lot of shootouts . This is considered to be one of the best Audie Murphy Westerns . The soft-spoken , baby-faced Audie Murphy delivers a fine acting as the happily married husband involved in problem when appears the previous father of his son about to commit a bank heist . Murphy won more than 20 medals , being the most decorated soldier in WWII , including the Congressional Medal of Honor and he was also awarded with 5 decorations conceded by France and Belgium countries . He starred a rendition based on his own self-biography titled ¨To hell and back¨ made by his ordinary director , Jesse Hibbs and it was a boxoffice hit for Universal International Pictures , and its record was apparently not broken until 1975 with Jaws by Spielberg. Murphy played a great number of westerns, most of them B-series , such as : The Kid from Texas , Cimarron Kid , Gunpoint , Night passage , The Gunrunners , Posse from hell, gunfight at Comanche , Apache Rifles , The Unforgiven, Red badge of courage , Whispering Smith , Texas kid , 40 Guns at apache pass , among others . Murphy is very well accompanied by a great support cast , such as . Darren McGavin , Ruta Lee , Beverly Owen , Skip Homeier , George Tobias , Edward Platt , Ray Teal , Mort Mills , and Alan Hale Jr .
It has a high level in technician experts as the master composer Frank Skinner giving a thrilling musical score and colorful , adequate cinematography by Joseph F. Biroc . Being shot on various locations in Virgin River , Zion National Parl , Utah , Snow Canyon , Utah and Denver street backlot , Universal studios. The motion picture was well directed by RG Springsteen .This director made since 1945 for Republic Pictures a number of westerns . As he directed the popular Red Ryder series . After that , he released B Westerns as Cole Younger , Gunfighter , King of the wild stallions , Showdown , He rides calm , Taggart , Bullet for a badman and many others . Subsequently , he made for producer A.C. Lyles and delivered by Paramount Pictures several Western films in low-budget , as follows : Black spurs , Waco , Red Tomahawk , Hostile guns , Johnny Reno . Rating . 6.5/10 . The picture will appeal to Eddie Murphy fans. Decent and acceptable oater .
