This turbulent adventure-drama is set against the rich,violent tapestry of Gun Hill.All the vast grandeur of the Southwest shown as never before possible with the greatness,the glory,the fury story of the untamed town.It's an exciting drama-vengeance with all the thrill and action of the Old West.It begins when the spouse of Sheriff Matt Morgan(Kirk Douglas)is raped and killed.Staunch Morgan aware the clue left, a signed saddle that belongs to Craig Belden(Anthony Quinn), an old partner but is nowadays a cattle baron in Gun Hill.Belden recognises his own son Rick(Earl Holliman)like one of the killers whom he refuse to hand over.Each owed the other his life and this was the moment of reckoning.The son is a captive hostage by obstinate Morgan at the mercy of the West's most notorious marshal-revenger.The sheriff living by the old rules-driven by vendetta-dueling to the death for have justice.He's surrounded in the town of the desperate and the damned ,where the baron cattle and the fastest gun owned everything.Morgan is determined to leave the town with murder suspect Rick and every single beating second the tension grows greater.
This is a magnificent Western with a trigger-taut drama of the strangest friendship and posterior confrontation between a West's most upright lawman and its deadliest baron cattle.A story enormous in scope and unusual in concept.It's incomparably played by the greatest who ever into action : Kirk Douglas with a first rate performance though sometimes overdone and excessive melodramatic inclination and Anthony Quinn also gives a fine acting,they were two towering box office stars of the time.Besides extraordinary support cast,Earl Holliman as the son,he was one of the ¨sons of Katie Elder¨;Brad Dexter as Belden's hoodlum,he was one of the¨Magnificent seven¨ ; Brian G. Hutton,as the son's companion ,posteriorly become successful director with¨The Kelly's heroes and When the eagles dare¨.It's filmed in glimmer Technicolor and Vistavision by Charles Lang.Evocative and appropriate musical score by the classic Dimitri Tiomkin.Dalton Trumbo wrote the script,the original story and signed by an inexistent Les Crutchfield but he was in the black list.The movie is produced by Hal Wallis,Paul Nathan and Bryna production,owner by Kirk Douglas.The motion picture is magnificently directed By John Sturges,author of various classic Western:Escape from Fort Bravo,Gunfight at the OK Corral,The law and Jake Wade,Magnificent seven, among others.
This is a magnificent Western with a trigger-taut drama of the strangest friendship and posterior confrontation between a West's most upright lawman and its deadliest baron cattle.A story enormous in scope and unusual in concept.It's incomparably played by the greatest who ever into action : Kirk Douglas with a first rate performance though sometimes overdone and excessive melodramatic inclination and Anthony Quinn also gives a fine acting,they were two towering box office stars of the time.Besides extraordinary support cast,Earl Holliman as the son,he was one of the ¨sons of Katie Elder¨;Brad Dexter as Belden's hoodlum,he was one of the¨Magnificent seven¨ ; Brian G. Hutton,as the son's companion ,posteriorly become successful director with¨The Kelly's heroes and When the eagles dare¨.It's filmed in glimmer Technicolor and Vistavision by Charles Lang.Evocative and appropriate musical score by the classic Dimitri Tiomkin.Dalton Trumbo wrote the script,the original story and signed by an inexistent Les Crutchfield but he was in the black list.The movie is produced by Hal Wallis,Paul Nathan and Bryna production,owner by Kirk Douglas.The motion picture is magnificently directed By John Sturges,author of various classic Western:Escape from Fort Bravo,Gunfight at the OK Corral,The law and Jake Wade,Magnificent seven, among others.