

Man with the Gun
A man who lived and breathed violence!
A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own shadow, scared of a landowner they never see who rules through his rowdy sidekicks. The stranger is a town tamer by trade, and he accepts a $500 commission to sort things out.
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- English
- marshal
- knife
- dancehall girl
- town tamer
- african american servant
- shooting dog
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR5 Nov 1955
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical6 Oct 1955
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1222 May 1956
ItalyIT
- Theatrical2 Mar 1956
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Man with the Gun was released on 6 October 1955.
Audience reviews
3- J7/10
John Chard
1/25/2017
Robert Mitchum is......Man With The Gun. Clint Tollinger arrives in a small town looking for his estranged wife and news of his daughter, tho he finds her, the chance of any sort of reconciliation is very slim. Whilst here, the sheriff and the important townsfolk learn of Tollinger's reputation as a pistol specialist town tamer. As they are living in fear of a mysterious landowner who is stripping the town from th…
- W7/10
Wuchak
4/24/2021
_**Well done town-bound Western with Robert Mitchum, albeit in B&W**_ A gunman (Robert Mitchum) strolls into town in the Old West and is hired as a town-tamer. Henry Hull plays the aged and cautious marshal while John Lupton and Emile Meyer appear as citizens. Leo Gordon and Claude Akins are on hand as heavies. "Man with the Gun" (1955) is a quality town-bound Western with Robert Mitchum towering as a laconic r…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
8/29/2026
There is something fairly standard about the plot here as a town under the control of a brutal, yet seldom seen, cattle man "Holman" seeks help from the no-nonsense "Tollinger" (Robert Mitchum). There is some uncertainty amongst the townsfolk about the merits of picking a fight with his chandelier-owning henchman "Frenchy" (Ted de Corsia) and his enforcer "Pinchot" (Leo Gordon) but when local farmer "Castle" (John Lu…
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