Word: gunplay
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...refers to a cowboy ballad used as background music to one more encounter between the wicked cattle barons and the hapless homesteaders. Macdonald Carey plays the hired gunman who slaps small boys, makes roughhouse passes at the beautiful saloonkeeper (Joanne Dru), and shoots harmless people dead. For all the gunplay, the film limps along from anticlimax to anticlimax, but moviegoers may be beguiled by some spectacular Technicolor scenery. As the U.S. marshal who goes to the rescue, John Ireland sets some sort of precedent by losing all his fist fights and getting shot down in the final gun battle with...
...Tall Texan (Lippert) is a short-order horse opera about a group of as sorted characters lusting for gold and a woman in the wide open spaces of the old West. After approximately an hour of gunplay, almost everyone is killed off, except the girl (Marie Windsor) and a strong, silent type (Lloyd Bridges), who have come to love each other. Of some interest to western fans may be the weird New Mexican rock formations that abound in the film...
...mountain country, concerned a crusading young schoolmaster's struggle against the local villain who tyrannized over people, gobbled up property, caged up animals. Crux of the struggle was a hunt for an unworldly youth fleeing with a $900 inheritance. As a western, Jaguar lacked life because even its gunplay suggested a morality play. As serious drama, it was so portentous that every little movement had three meanings...
Three new examples of Hollywood's staple commodity, the horse opera, all filmed in color, contain the full quota of galloping and gunplay...
...kidnaped by his conniving brother Michael (Robert Douglas), who has designs on the throne, Rassendyll obligingly shaves off his mustache, rivets a monocle into his profile and steps into the royal breach. After much leaping from balconies, swinging from trees, swimming across moats, charging across drawbridges and assorted gunplay and swordplay, Michael gets his comeuppance, the king is restored to his throne, and Rassendyll returns to England, enthroned in the heart of beautiful Princess Flavia (Deborah Kerr...