Gunpoint

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Audie Murphy, Edgar Buchanan, Joan Staley, Warren Stevens, and Morgan Woodward in Gunpoint (1966)

A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.

Director
- Earl Bellamy
Writers
- Mary Willingham
- Willard W. Willingham
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6.1/10

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Director
- Earl Bellamy
Writers
- Mary Willingham
- Willard W. Willingham
Stars

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Trivia
In the opening scene, the train being robbed is the Durango to Silverton (D/SNGRR) tourist train in Colorado. It is a narrow gauge railroad that runs along the Animas River.

Goofs
Despite the 1870s setting of the film, all of the major characters are dressed in clothing that either reflects later fashion styles or which was clearly sewn on modern sewing machines (circa mid-1960s).

Quotes
Ode: We'll be taking Bull up to the wild horse country. He'd want to be planted where he could hear the sound of them mustang feet just a-drummin' on his grave.

Connections
Edited from Gunsmoke (1953)

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6/10

End Of The Trail

The old sheriff has been killed during Morgan Woodward's raid and carrying off of lots of money in gold. His deputy, Audie Murphy is appointed sheriff. He takes off with a posse.... and everyone has an axe to grind.

It's Murphy's last western in his long deal with Universal, and the problem is that the 'shaky A' western he starred in had run its course. There was a new western in town, the Spaghetti Western, where there are no good guys; if you rooted for Clint Eastwood, it's because he got done dirt at the beginning of the movie, and Eli Wallach and Lee van Cleef are worse. Murphy's west was corrupt and violent, but Murphy himself was mostly clean, and he would restore order by the end of the movie, and get the girl, here ex-Playboy centerfold Joan Staley. So he goes and gets the job done, despite Warren Stevens and Edgar Buchanan and Denver Pyle, and hooray! But people didn't want that any more.

There's a certain tiredness to the movie, despite some nice camerawork by William Margulies.