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The Stranger Wore a Gun

THE SCREEN'S GREATEST OUTDOOR STAR

5.5(33)19531h 22m2

Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.

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Language
English
  • arizona
  • wanted man

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR30 Jul 1953
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1622 Apr 1954

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The Stranger Wore a Gun was released on 30 July 1953.

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    John Chard

    1/24/2014

    5/10

    Jeff Travis – Quantrill’s Conscience. The Stranger Wore a Gun is directed by Andre De Toth and adapted to screenplay by Kenneth Gamet from the story Yankee Gold written by John W. Cunningham. It stars Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine and Pierre Watkin. A Technicolor/3-Dimension production, music is by Mischa Bakaleinikoff and cinematography b…

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    Wuchak

    8/28/2022

    6/10

    **_Randolph Scott is caught between good and evil in this action-packed oater_** A spy used in the infamous Quantrill raid on Lawrence, Kansas (Randolph Scott), flees to Prescott, Arizona, after the war and gets mixed up with a shady gang of stagecoach robbers (led by George Macready). Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine are on hand as heavies. "The Stranger Wore a Gun" (1953) is a 3-D Western, which can be discerne…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    11/27/2024

    6/10

    When an innocent man is gunned down during a robbery, "Travis" (Randolph Scott) flees to a small Arizona town where he adopts a different identity. Not long after he arrives, though, he encounters his old malevolent friend "Mourret" (George Macready) and is soon embroiled in that man's scheme to rob the local freight line of it's regular gold supplies. When a tragedy occurs, he swears vengeance and as he was a spy du…

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