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Man with the Gun

A man who lived and breathed violence!

6.1(59)19551h 23m3

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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Released
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Box office
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Language
English
  • marshal
  • knife
  • dancehall girl
  • town tamer
  • african american servant
  • shooting dog

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • 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

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  • J

    John Chard

    1/25/2017

    7/10

    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…

  • W

    Wuchak

    4/24/2021

    7/10

    _**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…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    8/29/2026

    7/10

    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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