No Name on the Bullet
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| No Name on the Bullet | |
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 DVD cover for the film |
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| Directed by | Jack Arnold |
| Produced by | Jack Arnold Howard Christie |
| Written by | Howard Amacker (story) Gene L. Coon |
| Starring | Audie Murphy Charles Drake Joan Evans Virginia Grey |
| Music by | Herman Stein |
| Cinematography | Harold Lipstein |
| Editing by | Frank Gross |
| Distributed by | Universal-International |
| Release date(s) | 1959 |
| Running time | 77 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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No Name on the Bullet is a 1959 western film. It is one of a handful of pictures in that genre directed by Jack Arnold, better known for his science-fiction movies of the era. Although it is one of Universal-International's modestly budgeted vehicles for World War II hero Audie Murphy, the top-billed actor is unusually cast as the villain.
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[edit] Plot
John Gant (Audie Murphy) rides into a town and takes up residence in the local hotel, saying he'll be there for a few days. When he signs the register, his name sends fear into the hearts of the men in the lobby, for John Gant is infamous as a professional killer. He is known to observe events for several days, determining what he can do that will make the person he has been paid to eliminate draw on him. This has made his killings self-defense from a legal standpoint, leaving the law powerless to stop him. Word of his presence soon spreads throughout the town, and "guilt and paranoia create their own victims."[1] The town's doctor, Luke Canfield (Charles Drake), recently returned from medical school in the East, knows none of this, and has become acquainted, even agreed to play chess, with Gant. The citizenry, each highly suspicious that he is the intended victim, wants to run Gant out of town, but Canfield will not go along with mob rule. The conflict escalates, with a number of people killed without Gant's gun involved, but the identity of his actual target comes as quite a surprise to the doctor.
[edit] Cast
- Audie Murphy as John Gant
- Charles Drake as Dr. Luke Canfield
- Joan Evans as Anne Benson
- Virginia Grey as Roseanne Fraden
- Warren Stevens as Lou Fraden
- R.G. Armstrong as Asa Canfield
- Willis Bouchey as Sheriff Buck Hastings
- Edgar Stehli as Judge Benson
- Simon Scott as Henry Reeger
- Karl Swenson as Earl Stricker
- Whit Bissell as Thad Pierce
- Charles Watts as Sid, the bartender
- John Alderson as Ben Chaffee
- Jerry Paris as Deputy Sheriff Harold Miller
- Russ Bender as Jim, Storekeeper
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[edit] References
- ^ Maltin, Leonard, Leonard Maltin's 2003 Movie & Video Guide, Signet, 2002, p.998
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